activist, part of the mississippi freedom democratic party. she and many, many other poor african-american women during the era of jim crowe were given what came to be called mississippi appendectomies, either going in for child birth and other minor procedures and having their uteruses removed through his recht mis they had not consented to. mississippi is making a choice as a government to intervene in the reproductive lives of women and families in ways that will undoubtedly have dramatic and negative impact on women s health. melissa, the issue that get a lot of people is this does go beyond abortion. what kind of impacts would this have in reproductive rights, not
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