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RIP, French Feminist Icon Simone Veil

July 1, 2017 by WendyB

Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor who became a lawyer and then a much-admired feminist politician in France, died yesterday at the age of 89. Embed from Getty Images As France’s health minister in the 1970s, she pushed through laws that lifted restrictions on contraception and legalized abortion. During the National Assembly’s debate over abortion, “phrases…

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