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Why Lauren Rankin won't "debate" abortion rights

The case against debating your own civil rights.

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Hi, Parker here. 👋

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, erasing the nearly 50-year-old precedent guaranteeing the right to abortion. For Lauren Rankin, whose new book, Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America, had just come out months earlier, this meant a flood of media requests and an opp…

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Lauren Rankin is the author of Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America. Her writing has been featured at the Washington Post, The Cut, Fast Company, Slate, Teen Vogue, Refinery29, NBC News, and many more.
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