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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Choice
Choices
Freedom
Woman
Every
Violated
Abortion

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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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