All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Plot & Excerpts
On her right-hand side lies her Bliss! Bible, looking a bit chewed around the edges, its pages warped from a dried slick of spilled Coke, a chunk of Snickers bar gluing the pages of Mark and Luke together. On her left sits the dog-eared pamphlet she found shoved under her bedroom door when she woke up this morning, presumably by Margaret. On the front, in inch-high pink letters, it reads, “Choice: It’s a Womyn’s Right.” Below is the cartoon face of a girl with a ponytail, her ears decorated with enormous hoop earrings, one hand raised defiantly in a fist. Lizzie flips open the pamphlet and reads the top paragraph: “77 percent of anti-choice leaders are men; 100 percent of them will never be pregnant. The government has no right to meddle in a womyn’s womb any more than it dictates what a man can and can’t do with his penis.” She turns the page: “It’s your choice. For thirty years, the United States Supreme Court has defended the right of a womyn to decide what to do with her own body.
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