Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

Shirley Chisholm

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• To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

  

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  • Program
  • Abortion