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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Lifestyle
Miriam Stoppard

US bid to outlaw abortion hurts women everywhere - it's no different from the Taliban

Championing a woman’s right to control what happens to her body, including her right to have an abortion, is something I am dedicated to. So I’m appalled by attempts in the US to reject these basic women’s rights.

Believing I have the right to have control over my body is ingrained. In fact, I can’t remember a time when I wouldn’t defend those rights.

When I was a junior doctor (that’s 60 years ago) research first showed that by taking two hormones for a month (which would later become the pill) a woman could control ovulation and thereby her fertility.

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