The Wombs of Women Jean Smith Young That light we call "revelation

That light we call "revelation

and—in the United States in particular—gun-related violence upend normal life and expose vast swaths of society to recurring and profound trauma

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The Wombs of Women Jean Smith Young That light we call "revelationIn the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in 1970, the doctors claimed to have been encouraged to perform these abortions by French politicians who sought to curtail reproduction on the island, even