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Tracy Wen Liu

China Owned My Mother’s Womb. Texas Owns Mine.

Police block the street to prevent abortion rights demonstrators from nearing the police station in Austin, Texas, on June 25. (Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images)

On June 24, as I sat in Texas and grieved the loss of my abortion rights, my friends in China were trying to find out if four women brutally assaulted by a group of men in Tangshan earlier this month were still alive or out of the hospital.

As I was looking for the closest abortion center left to me, my friends in China were discussing in WeChat groups the most effective way to defend yourself when attacked and how to purchase pepper spray, as this keyword can no longer be searched for on the shopping site Taobao.

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