A choice of horrors
The Documentary Podcast
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Is There a Right of Privacy in Your Constitution?
Faisal Alistrabadi was one of the main drafters of the transitional law in Baghdad at that point. He came to me and said, well, you can't have a right of privacy in your constitution because the next thing you'll know is some court will find a right of abortion. The ideas that streamed in from liberal policymakers in London and Washington were exposed just as brutally. I had colleagues who were trying to organize gay pride parades through the streets of Basra.
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