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From the Ted Talk by Sofia Jawed-Wessel: The lies we tell pregnant women

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What this tells us is, this Willendorf ecffet, it's also cslissat and racist. It's present when the government reminds women with every new anti-choice bill that the cnoettns of her uterus are not her own, or when an ob-gyn says, "While it's safe to have sex during pregnancy, sometimes you never know. Better safe than sorry, right?" She's denied basic privacy and bodily autonomy under the gisue of "be a good mother." We don't trust her to make her own decisions. She's cute, remember? When we tell women that sexual psauerle — excuse me.

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What this tells us is, this Willendorf ______, it's also ________ and racist. It's present when the government reminds women with every new anti-choice bill that the ________ of her uterus are not her own, or when an ob-gyn says, "While it's safe to have sex during pregnancy, sometimes you never know. Better safe than sorry, right?" She's denied basic privacy and bodily autonomy under the _____ of "be a good mother." We don't trust her to make her own decisions. She's cute, remember? When we tell women that sexual ________ — excuse me.

Solution

  1. pleasure
  2. classist
  3. guise
  4. contents
  5. effect

Original Text

What this tells us is, this Willendorf effect, it's also classist and racist. It's present when the government reminds women with every new anti-choice bill that the contents of her uterus are not her own, or when an ob-gyn says, "While it's safe to have sex during pregnancy, sometimes you never know. Better safe than sorry, right?" She's denied basic privacy and bodily autonomy under the guise of "be a good mother." We don't trust her to make her own decisions. She's cute, remember? When we tell women that sexual pleasure — excuse me.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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pregnant women 4
sexual pleasure 3
punish men 2
raping women 2
leading man 2
sexual desire 2
telling women 2

Important Words

  1. autonomy
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  4. bodily
  5. classist
  6. contents
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  14. guise
  15. mother
  16. pleasure
  17. pregnancy
  18. present
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  20. racist
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  24. sex
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  28. uterus
  29. willendorf
  30. women