experiencing sexual assault, in her own life, and the need for abortion rights, is congresswoman gwen moore her experience on the house for ten years, ago during the debate over the violence against women act. congressman war joins us now. thank you so much for being with us today. >> thank you for having with me selina. >> i want to ask you about the connections between abortion rights, and this whole idea, of bodily autonomy. can you talk about how your own personal experience as a survival of sexual assault, impact your belief that everyone should have control over what happens to their own body? >> there's absolutely no debate, about whether or not, sexual assault is connected with your own physical autonomy and emotional autonomy. it always stuns me, that warriors, when men are warning, one of the main war crimes that they committed against people's rape. because of the devastation, that it brings along with it. and, having control of your body, is just fundamental to having any kind of rates. it's certainly, the choice to whether or not be a parent, is so closely tied to not only your

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