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A few recent news stories have served as reminders that an awful lot of people lack even a basic understanding of the female body. And some of those people get to make and shape our laws, writes @lauren_kelley nyti.ms/2UitCO5
There was the lawyer in Alabama who tried to justify an extreme anti-abortion bill that he helped draft by arguing that after a man and a woman have sex, “you can take her straight into a clinic and determine an egg and sperm came together.” nyti.ms/2UitCO5 
There was the lawmaker in Idaho who asked at a legislative hearing whether a woman could get a gynecological exam by swallowing a tiny camera. nyti.ms/2UitCO5
And the Texas lawmaker who said that while getting a rape kit exam, “the woman can get cleaned out” to end her pregnancy. nyti.ms/2UitCO5
Last month President Trump mused about Central American migrants heading to the United States: “Mothers who love their daughters give them massive amounts of birth control pills, because they know their daughters are going to be raped.” nyti.ms/2UitCO5
Fact do still matter. And it sure wouldn’t hurt for more people in power to learn about the bodies they’re trying to regulate. nyti.ms/2UitCO5
