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

John Irving

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

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