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The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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