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David Smith in Washington

‘I’m changing Congress’: how Cori Bush brought her lived experience to Capitol Hill

Cori Bush.
Cori Bush is the first Black woman to represent Missouri in Congress. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

Her new memoir is bracingly, sometimes painfully honest, but there is one passage that Cori Bush seriously considered striking out before publication.

She had an abortion when she was 19. Walking into the white-walled room of a reproductive health clinic, Bush writes, she began to have reservations about the procedure. Twice she told a nurse, “I don’t want to do this,” but twice the nurse ignored her objections and carried on.

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