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Friday, August 18, 2006 12:00 AM

My body (except in prison)

Missouri attorney general appeals decision allowing inmates transportion to receive abortions.
Sarah Goldstein

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  • Friday, August 18, 2006 01:19 PM

    Ceding control upon entering prison?

    John wrote: "Indeed, if Nixon were to win his appeal, incarcerated women in Missouri would cede control over their bodies upon entering prison."

    Isn't that what happens already?

    John, we don't perform medical experiements on women in prison, we don't (legally) rape them, and we don't forcibly take their kidneys to give to well-deserved transplant patients. So, no, they do not cede control over their bodies upon entering prison.

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