Becky Jacobs
@ruthyjacobs
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Higher ed reporter @CapTimes . Previously @PostCrescent , @sltrib / @report4america @PostTrib , @gfherald . From Rockford. Go Cubs! She/Her
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I'm at Highland HS where 100+ students have walked out in support of Roe v. Wade
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I'll never get over walking out of Target and seeing beautiful mountains in Utah.
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Utahns will have a lot of questions today now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. And
@sltrib
has answers. 🧵👇
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Attention Utahns:
@sltrib
published a free guide of where you can go if abortions are further restricted in the Beehive State. It has:
-a map of the nearest cities/states to go
-an outline of laws in the states surrounding Utah
You can find it all here.
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Hi
@danmccay
, I've been trying to get in touch with you for over a week now. I'd like to talk with you about your bill, "Proposal to Amend Utah Constitution -- Rights Relating to Abortion." Looking forward to hearing from you about this important topic.
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Some personal news 📰 Monday is my last day reporting on women's issues for
@sltrib
. I'm so proud of the work I've done, and I'm grateful to
@sltrib
and
@Report4America
for giving me this opportunity. I'm very lucky to have worked with such a talented team of journalists.
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As we wait for the Supreme Court's official ruling on Roe v. Wade, I'm starting a thread of
@sltrib
's abortion coverage from the last few weeks to make it easy for readers to find our reporting. 🧵👇
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Courtney could've easily written a simple story about the bill signing. Instead, she wrote a powerful accountability article.
Yet another example of why she's such a talented journalist. Utahns are lucky to have her reporting for them.
Gov. Spencer Cox signed Utah's anti-DEI bill.
Many of the prohibitions in it are things the governor has previously heralded while in office ...
-diversity trainings for staff
-signing statements on inclusion
-scholarships for students of color
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“I need people to know that it’s people like me. I’m your next-door neighbor. I’m your friend. I’m the mom at pick-up.”
4 Utah women share their abortion stories as Roe v. Wade hangs in the balance.
New story from me via
@sltrib
/
@Report4America
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In Culver's news: The Wisconsin company is switching from Pepsi to Coca-Cola products.
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If I can't get an abortion in Utah in the future, where are the closest states that I can go?
The answer: Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico
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I'm at the Utah Capitol where there is a rally in response to the leaked Supreme Court decision this week.
They're starting with a dance in honor of MMIWG day
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This is one heck of a correction. Found it in a box of old women's issues reports and publications.
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Today, is my 3 year anniversary with
@sltrib
, and I'm grateful to
@Report4America
for bringing me here to report on women's issues & the status of women in Utah. 🧵👇
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.
@CourtneyLTanner
and I unlocked a new level of our friendship as a journalism duo this weekend by sharing the Sunday cover of
@sltrib
. And we are pretty excited about it.
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Since I started at
@sltrib
via
@Report4America
last year, I've kept a spreadsheet of each person I've talked with/included in a story, his/her gender, and whether this person had been in the paper before.
Coming up on my one year anniversary, I crunched some numbers this morning.
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24 hours after the protest started, the tents are still up at UW-Madison. It's a peaceful, quiet morning. I'm back out here reporting for
@CapTimes
.
I'm counting at least 26 tents on Library Mall.
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I'll be honest: I'm tired. I did a lot of reporting to prepare for this moment, but it's still been exhausting to keep up with all that's happened this week.
But there's more work to do, and I'll keep doing the journalism that
@sltrib
readers and Utahns expect and deserve.
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Where can Utahns get the abortion pill or emergency contraception?
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Story updated: Utah's Planned Parenthood resumes abortions after state judge grants request to block trigger law
BREAKING: Judge grants a request to block Utah's abortion trigger law from being enforced. The temporary restraining order will be in place for 14 days.
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Reporter 1: "2020 is not going well!"
Reporter 2: "It's only Day 2..."
Reporter 1: "Move on to 2021, everyone!"
@OHnewsroom
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Here it is! 🥳🥁📢 The kickoff to our series digging into Utah's reputation as the worst state for women's equality.
This editorial explains why we did this deep dive. Watch
@sltrib
for more stories in the series.
@Report4America
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What's the Utah Abortion Fund?
We talked with them.
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Time for a cute story:
My mom prints out my
@sltrib
/
@report4america
articles for my 93-year-old grandma (who I call Amah) to read.
Amah apparently shares these with her friends, and one of them gave her a $20 bill to donate to support the work RFA/The Tribune does.
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Some personal news, as they say 💁♀️📰
I'm starting a new job reporting on higher education
@CapTimes
April 1. (No, that's not an April Fools' Day joke.)
My last day
@PostCrescent
is March 27.
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Judge says he will issue temporary restraining order. Hearing still going.
UPDATE: Emergency hearing scheduled for 3 p.m. today over request to block Utah's abortion trigger law.
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I've told a bunch of people already, but it's worth tweeting. I'm staying at
@sltrib
through
@report4america
for a second year to keep reporting on women's issues and the status of women in Utah. I'm so proud of the first year of stories we've done, and I'm excited for more. 🗞️
🚨INTRODUCING🚨
@Report4America
’s 2020-2021 Corps Members!
These 225 emerging journalists are hitting the ground in more than 160 newsrooms across the U.S. at a time when they’re needed most. Get to know the corps:
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I work with a team of really talented journalists.
But a special shout out goes to my husband, who drove me around to different rallies yesterday and brought me a La Croix after as I wrote on a park bench.
📷:
@samuelsski27
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A group is asking the Utah Legislature to provide free menstrual products in all public K-12 and charter schools in the state.
“Access to period products is as necessary as toilet paper."
Story from
@CourtneyLTanner
and me.
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First, what happens now?
Well, Utah's trigger law - banning abortions in the state except for a few, limited circumstances - is set to go into effect. But it's not in place YET.
More on that in this developing story today.
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"As a person with a uterus, I'm scared," speaker says.
Crowd cheers as speaker talks about bodily autonomy.
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Journalism tip: When you're on the road, file your story from a Culver's. An employee may come up to you, say they made extra of the flavor of the day and give you a scoop of frozen custard.
True story.
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Today is my first day
@CapTimes
! I'm excited to get started covering higher education. Reach out with story ideas or to chat here or at bjacobs(at)captimes(dot)com☕️📰
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There's way to prevent more children from getting sick with COVID-19, according to Utah health care providers: Adults need to get vaccinated, and people need to wear masks.
New from me.
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It's been a week since the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. A lot has happened since then. 🧵👇
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Here she is! The statue is 7 feet 6 inches tall, and 550 pounds. In real life, Martha Hughes Cannon was just shy of 5 feet. Speakers today celebrated the large legacy she left. Story to come
@sltrib
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On Sunday,
@sltrib
launched my editorial about why we are taking a deep dive on Utah's reputation as the worst state for women's equality.
We included a survey, asking readers what they would like to see change about the lives of women in UT & how UT can improve its reputation
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There's so much heart in this story. It's a beautiful read, making you want to cry and and smile.
Here's my obit on the incomparable
@krisis86
:
Kris Irvin, a tweeting transgender Latter-day Saint who pushed for equality, dies at 35
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Doing chants now. "Not the church. Not the state. Women must decide their fate."
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I'm so excited to join the Salt Lake Tribune and Report for America covering women's issues. It's a great opportunity, and I'm ready to get started. But until then, there are some more crime stories to write for the Post-Tribune.
We’re thrilled to announce our 2019 Report for America corps members, a group of 61 journalists who will bring top-notch reporting to 50 newsrooms across America! Here’s the full list of corps members and where they’re heading:
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When you're writing some breaking news and you get this email from your mom to your work address. 🤗 Seriously, she's the best.
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For the third year in a row, Utah was named the worst state for women's equality, according to a report released today from WalletHub. Story to come
@sltrib
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We've had so many cool suffrage stories in
@sltrib
since I started last year through
@Report4America
. Here's a thread of them all to help you celebrate the suffrage anniversaries this year. 🎉🗳️
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BREAKING Utah’s abortion trigger law will continue to be blocked from being enforced, judge decides
This story will be updated.
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Journalists, do you also map out stories and write ledes in your mind as you fall asleep, hoping you remember those revisions in the morning?
#reporterprobs
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As Election Day approaches, let's take at women's voter participation in Utah. 🗳️
Utah plunged from having the highest turnout of female voters in the country in 1992 — known nationally as the Year of the Woman — to the nation’s lowest 14 years later.
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Here's that story.
Utah ranked worst state for women’s equality three years in a row, via
@sltrib
&
@Report4America
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I'm at a rally on UW-Madison campus where people just put up tents on library mall.
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Who gets abortions in Utah and why?
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1/ As Women’s History Month comes to an end, let’s revisit some moments from the Utah Legislature this year that capture issues that women in the Beehive State face today. 🙋♀️
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Eli used to come home crying from elementary school after being bullied. His mom said there was no other option: They needed to leave Utah and move somewhere more supportive of transgender children.
New story from me via
@sltrib
/
@Report4America
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Yesterday,
@sltrib
published a story about Eastern Utah Teen Council -- a group of teens in Price who are filling in the "gaps" in Utah by teaching "real sex ed" to other teens.
Here's how that story came together. 👇🧵
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I've loved covering women's issues in Utah, and I'm thankful for every source who helped me tell these important stories.
But it's time to move back to the Midwest and live closer to family. ❤��
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FYI: We made a portion of my larger story free to readers, outlining abortion laws in the states surrounding Utah, and showing where Utahns can go if abortions are further restricted in the Beehive State.
That information is available here.
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I'm a Bagley cartoon! 😍 Thanks so much to
@Patbagley
for all of these fun, awesome drawings of the
@sltrib
staff.
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Today, on International Women's Day, I thought I'd share some stories I've written on the women's issues beat for
@sltrib
&
@Report4America
over the last year. 🧵👇
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Ok, Twitter, let's see if you can help.
This picture fell out of a book I checked out from the SLC Library. There's nothing written on the back.
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Still resting on the couch today with a full Christmas belly? Read my new story about the status of women in the legal field in Utah, via
@sltrib
and
@Report4America
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Speaker encourages students to get active and contact their legislators.
"Whose bodies?"
"Our bodies!"
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📢 As you enjoy the holiday weekend, grab a copy of
@sltrib
's weekly paper on Sunday. 📰
There's ALWAYS good journalism in there. But I'm extra excited for this edition because we're kicking off a project digging into Utah's reputation as the worst state for women's equality.
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What's next? I'll be working at
@PostCrescent
, creating a new beat (again) and reporting on the paper industry for Gannett's Wisconsin newspaper network. 🗞️🌲
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This brought me close to tears. Very powerful. Via
@NPR
: Gangs Flex Their Muscle On Violent Streets Of El Salvador
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One woman says she felt like "a piece of meat on the exam table." Another says he "treated her body like some sort of play thing."
Now, 50 women are suing a Provo OB-GYN, saying he sexually assaulted him while he was their doctor.
New story from me.
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Excited to have a 3rd
@Report4America
journalist join our team! 🥳
This is also a good time to share that I'm staying on for a 3rd year at
@sltrib
and will continue covering women's issues.
I love this beat, and I feel incredibly lucky to work in such a talented newsroom.
The
@sltrib
's newest
@Report4America
reporter
@AlixelCabrera
will focus on 10 communities on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley. She’ll be covering not just the city governments, but the people who live in those communities.
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I've been keeping a spreadsheet of the people I've interviewed for my stories since I started at The Salt Lake Tribune a little over four months ago.
So far, 66 of 80 of the sources have been female. And we've included 42 new voices who haven't been quoted in the paper before.
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I have a super cute coworker while working the Christmas Eve breaking news shift today. 😍
She has already tried to steal my seat, though
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Hey guys, I have something cool to share 😃:
This morning,
@sltrib
sent a survey to each of Utah’s 104 state lawmakers, asking what they are doing to help women as the Beehive State looks to successfully emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.
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If you're in Utah, there's a good chance that you're going to see/hear/read the name Seraph Young today.
On my way to work this morning, I was behind a car with her name on the license plate. No joke.
So who is she?
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This weekend, I won a first place award for business coverage. Thanks
@WNA_news
for recognizing my reporting on loggers and Wisconsin's paper industry!
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A story publishing tomorrow was brought to you by this journalist in a hard hat at a paper mill.
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"We are here because they're trying to overturn Roe v. Wade," speaker says. Talks about Utah's trigger law.
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Today was another busy reporting day. But it was also my first cover story for
@CapTimes
! Teamed up with
@elmcgroarty
to write about history unfolding in the present.
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Female inmates at Utah State Prison don’t have access to as many vocational trainings as men do. Some worry that plays into gender stereotypes and may funnel them into lower-paying jobs when they are released.
New story from me via
@sltrib
/
@report4america
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Today is my one year anniversary working for
@PostCrescent
/ USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
I'll admit, I was a little unsure when I started on the paper industry beat. But now I can confidently say it's been a lot of fun, and I'm glad I took this leap. 📰🧻
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Help us out.
This morning,
@mskellycannon
asked me if it was raining in SLC. I told her it was "spitting a bit." She said she'd never heard "spitting" used to describe rain.
Is that a Midwest term?
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Seraph Young was the first woman — not just in Utah, but in the country — to vote under an equal suffrage law.
For 80+ years, her name was misspelled on her gravestone. Now, that's been fixed. New from me via
@sltrib
&
@report4america
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Utah advocate instrumental in clearing rape kit backlog, supporting survivors dies at 42, via
@sltrib
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ICYMI: A Utah teacher said she was pushed out after reporting female students' concerns that a boy inappropriately touched them.
“Teachers should be able to report sexual harassment without worrying about retaliation," she says.
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“I just feel so terrible when a victim comes & says, ‘Well, I applied for a protective order, but it was denied. So, I guess they didn’t think I was abused enough.’ I just cringe. It’s like, no, … that’s not it."
New story from me,
@sltrib
/
@Report4America
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I'm at Washington Square Park for a rally about to start in response to the Supreme Court's abortion ruling today.
Follow along with me
@jordanrmillerr
and
@trenthead
from the
@sltrib
team.
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At the bank today
Banker: What do you do?
Me: I'm a reporter.
Banker: Oh, that's scary!
😂
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BREAKING: There's a dog in the newsroom.
No one is quite sure why, but we all seem to be pretty OK with it.
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"Our bodies are not up for political debate," another speaker says
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A thread of local reporting today from
@sltrib
on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and what it means for Utah 🧵👇
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Stacey Jackson-Roberts, who was born & raised in Beaver, will start as the Utah Pride Center's new CEO on 9/1. She says she will work to make LGBTQ+ youth in rural parts of the state "feel heard, loved and accepted."
New story from me &
@katbancroft
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“I know Utah is going to say, ‘Don’t let the door hit you…’ said Eli’s grandmother. “But that’s the problem. Utah doesn’t care. The policies here, the attitudes are so harsh & not inclusive.”
Here’s why 7 households of a Utah family are leaving the state.
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Why do I keep writing obits for incredible women I wish I had met? Thank you to everyone who described Margarita Satini's life to me.
Utah advocate who helped Pacific Islander community fight COVID-19 dies at 50 of virus complications, via
@sltrib
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About 200 people gathered at the Utah Capitol this evening in support of the ERA.
New from me.
The Equal Rights Amendment is not just for women, but for everyone, no matter their gender, race or identity, said a speaker at a rally on
#WomensEqualityDay
at the Utah Capitol.
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I've got to stop dreaming about journalism. It makes it very confusing to figure out who I've called and interviewed in real life or just in my sleep.
#journoprobs
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Salt Lake City doctors see increased interest in vasectomies after Roe reversal
Interesting story from
@jordanrmillerr
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In Utah County, suspects who were people of color in are nearly 3 times more likely to be charged than white assailants in sexual assault cases.
That's one of the many findings from new research that I wrote about in this story.
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Hey! Here's my first story in my new job covering Wisconsin's paper industry.
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Reason for getting an abortion is no one's business except for the person getting the abortion, the speaker says
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