The "Waking Up But Still Not Woke" Edition
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Freedman's Resignation From the Knasset
When marcia freedman brought up in the knasset in 19 76, the issue of domestic abuse, the first time violence against women had ever been mentioned in the knaset, he was ridiculed. When freedman proposed a bill that would make abortion universally available and free it went even worse. Hardly a sentence of my speech didn't arouse the opponents of abortion. The next day, mariv reported the coneset took a short break yesterday from discussing heavy topics to hear with a half grin, about a particular kind of violence, women battered by their husbands. Still, when tally was taken by a vote of 20 to nine, a committee was instructed to investigate violence against women
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