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Woman, Aflame.

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Roe v. Wade.

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She was a mother.

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She was a girl who dreamed
of becoming a mother someday.

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She was either a tease or
a tramp, a lover or a wife.

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Still she had to
do the counting.

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Was accused of
lacking spontaneity,

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being a cold-hearted bitch.

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But if the days
didn't add up, she'd

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end up straddling a cold
table in a dingy back room,

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or waving, goodbye future.

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She was jogging
on the late shift.

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Unlocking her car.

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And though she still remembered
the tart smack of his sweat

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when he held her down,
horseradish on his tongue,

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none of this was she
permitted to say.

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While lawyers argued
her rights to privacy,

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citing statute and precedent,
until the court declared,

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enough.

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And she and her body
were free to go.

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But it wasn't enough.

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