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My Country, My Choice [Video]

“If you don't trust me with my body, why should I trust you with my country?”

Laura Flanders

October 18, 2012

Fed up with political ads? You might still like this one. Timely, from the Agenda Project Fund, this ad features twenty-eight women asking politicians: If you don’t trust me with my body, why should I trust you with my country? Good question.

For more on the power of women voters in this election, check out Bryce Covert on Mitt Romney's flip-flopping on equal pay and reproductive rights. And sign up for Feminist Roundup, The Nation's weekly newsletter featuring feminist content, here.

Laura FlandersTwitterLaura Flanders is the author of several books, the host of the nationally syndicated public television show (and podcast) The Laura Flanders Show and the recipient of a 2019 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship.


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