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The Spirit of Abortions Silenced Legacy
introduces Mrs. Jones
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After Dr. Smith Speaks
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Turning to Mrs. Jones
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| Mrs. Jones, one woman
in whose face and story you can see every woman
who faced ending an intended unwanted pregnancy
before Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion. |
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| The fear, the desperation
and the determination to control if, when, and how
many children they would have, led women like Mrs.
Jones to risk their health and life by attempting
to self-induce an abortion or led them to seek underground
and most often than not, a caring and skilled abortion
provider providing safe but illegal abortions in
secret. |
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| Mrs. Jones and thousands
upon thousands of women like her were forced to
risk being arrested in raids upon those abortion
providers, coerced into testifying against their
provider, and being subjected to an outrageous violation
of their medical confidentiality. |
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| Women like Mrs. Jones
risked being forced into degrading and humiliating
exams for evidence against their abortion provider
and risked exposure of their private sexual life
in probing questions by male police officers and
district attorneys in a public trial in a packed
courtroom. |
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| Threatened and intimidated
by powerful men holding their future in their hands
and determined to reaffirm their patriarchal power
over women, their bodies, and their rights, women
like Mrs. Jones were exposed to public trials in
sexually charged courtrooms where |
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| elicited testimony was
elicited for it's erotic effect not its evidentiary
contribution. |
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| Mrs. Jones is a very brave
woman. She's a very moral and righteous person.
She made a morally correct decision; best for the
potential life she was responsible for and best
for herself when she made the decision to terminate
her unintended pregnancy. |
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| What happened to Mrs.
Jones was unconscionable. She was desperate and
determined to control her destiny. |
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| Mrs. Jones and I were
born into a country in which illegal abortion has
never killed a man and the souls of women who have
died from illegal abortion have been silenced. That's
wrong. That's immoral. |
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| Listen to her story. It
too is the reality of illegal abortion. |
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(When Mrs. Jones is finished performing
her script
The Spirit of Abortion's Silenced Legacy speaks again in Part
3.)
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