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OpinionI'll Never Be Ashamed of My AbortionI want my daughters to have the same agency over their bodies as I did. I'm worried they won't.I am medium-brown-skinned - neither rich dark chocolate nor creamy cafe au lait. I am a B cup and have, for a black girl, a barely there butt. I have flat feet and oily skin. And like so many American women of reproductive age, I've had an abortion.I, and I alone, made the decision to terminate a pregnancy more than a decade ago so that I could be the best mother I could be to the two children I already had.The Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, guaranteeing a woman's freedom to obtain an abortion without undue government restriction, was issued 47 years ago Wednesday. A 47th anniversary may not seem like a huge milestone. But it is critical at this moment in history. It is a call for deliberate action to safeguard the most basic and ordinary right of all: to control your own body.Despite what some politicians would have us believe, most Americans support that right. There is no state in the country where the majority favors an outright ban on abortion. Seven in 10 Americans, across party lines, say they do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. Nearly a half-century after Roe, we must not allow some warped, anti-feminist ideology to take away our freedom.That means we all have to speak up. Shouting is O.K., if that's your thing. What's most important is that we stand together and stand up against the beat-down on sexual and reproductive health in this country.Just last week, the Supreme Court agreed to consider whether employers can limit women's access to free birth control under the Affordable Care Act because of moral or religious objections. Last summer the Trump administration forced Planned Parenthood and other providers o
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