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A week into 2020, and the US political discourse on reproductive rights is already at a crossroads. On 6 January, 39 Republican senators signed an amicus brief urging the supreme court to reconsider Roe v Wade, the 1973 supreme court case that secured the legal right to an abortion. This comes on the heels of a year in which Alabamas governor, Kay Ivey, signed into law the Human Life Protection Act, stating that doct
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If you are an Indian, you are probably angry, sad or deeply frustrated at the moment. In the past few years the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and his coalition government have been embroiled in corruption scam after corruption scam, from the embarrassing Commonwealth Ga
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