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The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'
Dawn Johnsen
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Dawn Johnsen
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 14
Manhasset
New York
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