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I AM a member of the National Abortion Campaign. I am also a lesbian. Why should women who choose to sleep with other women rather than with men abortion? We don't run the risk of unwanted pregnancy, unless of course we have the ill fortune to be raped. Is fighting for abortion rights something 'unliberated" heterosexual sisters?

the right to decide how many children to have. It is about the right as women to decide for ourselves about our own bodies and how we live our own lives.

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It is no coincidence that the pillars of the antimovement, particularly the Church, are homosexual. They provide a package dear or prejuaice abortion is murder and lesbianism sickness from which we can be cured.

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