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Jake Shields went off the deep end once again and recently questioned the illegality of polygamy in the U.S. after viciously attacking the transgender community.

Over the past year, the former UFC welterweight has emerged as a prominent social media personality and is widely known for boldly voicing extremely polarizing opinions on sensitive social issues. Shields competed in the UFC from 2010-2014, winning four of his eight outings in the octagon.

Recently, Jake Shields has been making a splash on Twitter with his unfiltered criticism of gender dysphoria and transgenderism. He came under fire for making several controversial comments about trans-athletes competing in cisgender sports, including demanding "public executions" of trans allies.

In one of his latest tweets, Shields questioned why polygamy was illegal in a free country like the U.S. and argued his case by drawing parallels with trans-affirming surgery and gay marriage. He wrote:

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Jake Shields stirred the pot with his recent tweet asking why consenting adults weren't allowed to be married to multiple partners. While the former professional MMA fighter is no stranger to controversy, social media users seemed eager to lay out their arguments for and against his unpopular take.

His fans and other Twitter users made their thoughts known in the comments section of the tweet. One fan agreed with Jake Shields and claimed they could get more work done with "sister wives," writing:

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You might have come across those videos of polyamorous couples that describe how their relationship is and those are quite viral on the internet. People usually have mixed reactions to polygamy but the truth is, it all depends on consent and preferences, just like in the case of this Rajasthan couple.

A unique marriage was recently reported from Rajasthans Tonk district where a man married two women who were sisters However, the man gave a rather interesting reason behind his decision to marry the sisters. Heres what happened.

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Kanta, the eldest daughter of Babulal Meena of Sindda region reportedly got a marriage proposal from Hari Om Meena. Hari Om Meena was a graduate while Kanta had completed her Masters in Urdu. The union seemed alright but Kanta put forward a condition in order to get married to Hari Om.

Kanta has a younger sister Suman who is mentally ill and depends heavily on her for her daily tasks. She could not complete her studies after eighth grade and spent her days in Kantas care who was responsible for all her work. Kantas concern was that after she got married, her mentally challenged sister would be on her own, which was not right for her. She couldnt do her work on her own and without Kantas care, it would become difficult for her.

Kanta expressed her desire to keep her sister with her even after getting married so that she can look after her. She also said that she would get married to Hari Om only when he agreed to marry her sister too. The groom and brides family agreed to the condition as they understood her pain. The three of them got married on May 5 in Morjhala, Uniyara, Rajasthan.

Hari Om reportedly said that if he did not agree to marry Suman, it would have been difficult for her family to find her a husband because of her condition. He said that he will do his best to keep both his wives happy in the marriage. Previously, a Jharkhand man got married to two women consensually after he had relations with both of them. He was in a live-in relationship with the first one and had a child with her while he met the other one at work and got close to her. There was another man from Chhattisgarh who also married two women saying that they both loved him and agreed to be married to him together.

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Dr. Shomaila Warsi

On May 11, Delhi-based multimedia platform Awaz-The voice carried an opinion piece by Prof. Akhtarul Wasey, Professor Emeritus (Islamic Studies), Jamia Millia Islamia titledMuslim women inherit multiple times and at times more than that of men. The article made three broad points about the apparent gender disparities in Muslim inheritance law. One is that since the inheritance law is derived from the Holy Quran, Surah Nisa (4:11-14), it leaves no scope for any change of reinterpretation of the classicalSharia.Said in other words, Allah has described to the minutest detail the method of division of the property, therefore human beings have no choice but to follow the divine decree.

The second point is that since a womans share in the capacity of a daughter, sister, wife or mother has been determined by Allah, again, the feminist demands of gender equality in the disposal of property goes against the grain ofSharia. And thirdly, and most importantly, the main argument from which the article derives its title, the discussion over the property rights of Muslim women is futile because, under the current scheme of things a woman inherits from her maternal home and also from her in-laws, not only from her father and husband, but also from her mother, and brother. In this way, she gets this share many times in his life. By that logic, the distribution of property in its presentSharia-compliant form is not just non-discriminatory but gives preferential treatment to Muslim women.

As is obvious, the article presents a traditionalist view of Islamic inheritance laws that are under challenge from Muslim reformers across the world. The popular interpretations of the sections from the Quran and Hadith related to the inheritance rights of Muslim women on which the article is based are being fiercely debated in Muslim-majority countries for quite some time and the states are invoking instruments of Ijtihad (independent reasoning by scholars) and its various forms like ijma(scholarly consensus),qiyas, istihsan(equity) andmaslahah mursalah(public interest) to apply for the Quranic injunctions in the right spirit of justice and equality that form the bedrock of Quranic understanding of gender relations.

While Prof. Wasey sees no place for debate over the application ofSharialaw to inheritance matters, the current debates and practices aroundShariain Islamic countries are quite heterogeneous. There are Muslim states like Turkey, Tanzania, and Albania that follow a secularShariasystem which is a departure from classicalSharia.

Then there are states like Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Morocco that follow a mixed system where family law as per the classical Sharia has been updated and reformed to meet the demands of time. Indonesia is a special case where the maxim ofHarta Gono Gini(joint property) has been incorporated in the Islamic Legal Compilation which is influenced by a Javanese tradition that wife and husband have equal rights.

Lastly, there are other States like Saudi Arabia that followSharialaw alone as per the Hanbali school of thought. Saudi Arabia turned to this after the advent of Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahab. So, Prof. Waseys first contention that classicalShariais immutable and there is no scope for any reform there is at variance with the practices in the larger Islamic world, yes this may be true for countries where political expediencies have necessitated a rigid interpretation ofSharialaw.

Then the specific second point in the article about the un-amenability of inheritance laws vis--vis Muslim women and how this debate is also closed because the Quranic verse is clear. Again the reality is that the debate on the law of inheritance in Muslim countries is very much alive and thriving and two broad patterns are seen. One side relies on the literal interpretation of Quranic verses to conclude that a man is entitled to receive two portions compared to a woman, while the other side argues that in the broader Quranic scheme man and woman are equal so the property should also be distributed equally. In countries like Tunisia and Turkey liberal interpretations have been gaining currency for a long to embrace the requirements of modernity while in nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, more traditional interpretations are applied.

Miftahul Huda expands the debate to identify four patterns of reform in the wider Muslim family law. Miftahul calls the first one progressive, pluralistic, and extra-doctrinal reform, such as in Turkey and Tunisia. The second type is adaptive, unified, and intra-doctrinal reform, as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Algeria, and Pakistan; the third type is adaptive, unified, and intra-doctrinal reform, represented by Iraq, while the fourth type is progressive, unified and extra-doctrinal reform, like in Somalia and Algeria.

The point is that we must look at inheritance law as an extension of family law and apply the same tools of interpretation to it. Prof. Wasey is very much aware that there are traditionalists who believe that polygamy is ordained by Allah and any law that outlaws polygamy violates Sharia. Likewise, when it comes to the share of orphan grandchildren,Shariahas often been wrongly applied to deny a share to them. But when it comes to reform, Pakistan and Indonesia found innovative ways to put limits on the practice of polygamy by making existing wives consent mandatory. Tunisia has banned polygamy altogether.

Likewise, laws were made to ensure that orphan grandchildren get a share of the property through a mandatory will from the grandfather. Family law reform has been actively pursued in Muslim states in recent years and Muslim jurists have found innovative ways to increase the minimum age of marriage, expand a wifes ability to give divorce, give custody of children to mothers, and reduce the subservience of Muslim women to their husbands.

In India tripletalaqused to be presented as an element of Muslim faith till it was finally abolished by the Supreme Court of India without a murmur from the larger Muslim community.

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The point is that many Islamic countries have reformed their laws to provide greater equality and rights to women. Inheritance laws in India must align with modern values and principles of equality and Muslim intellectuals here must take cognizance of the feminist themes in the debates around Muslim inheritance law and promote the reformist view of Islam. The need for reform to bring women at par with men is being felt everywhere and the Male Muslim scholars like Prof Wasey would do well by not siding with the status quo. They should rather advise Indias Muslim community to follow the law of the land on these matters if the Personal law fails to come of age.

(Dr Shomaila Warsi PhD teaches Politics and International Relations at Kirori Mal College Delhi University. Views are personal).

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Speaking to TshisaLIVE previously, Mpumelelo's father, the popular polygamist and businessman Musa, who has four wives, said he was happy his son had decided on his own to pursue polygamy.

Mpumelelo has to first answer to himself as a person, whether what he's doing is exactly what he wants or it's what he's seeing me doing. He has to be truthful to himself to say, 'Am I ready to go through this journey with these women', because if that's not the case, he will fail, even while I'm around, because he has to love it, live it and own it.

I have an obligation as his father to say, 'My son, I'm not excited by the fact that you're following in my footsteps, but what will excite me is that you, as a grown-up man, take a decision, you own the decision, to live this kind of a lifestyle ... because you will then extend the vision,' he said.

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Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) secretary general Collins Oyuu has amused netizens with his unusual marital advice to men.

Oyuu encouraged men interested in polygamous marriages to consider marrying three women for his union to be happy.

According to Nairobi News, the unionist who was speaking at a funeral in Homa Bay argued that the traditional polygamous structure of two wives can sometimes cause chaos and instability at home.

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He cited the possibility of two wives colluding and conspiring against their husband, leaving him exposed.

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The unionist based his odd advice on the composition of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in deciding cases.

Chairman of the Luo Council of Elders Nyandiko Ongadi noted that having three wives ensures peace exists at the homestead.

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On Thursday, January 12, TUKO.co.ke reported that Citizen TV journalist Stephen Letoo encouraged women to embrace polygamy.

He noted that when women embrace their co-wives, it will help reduce jealousy issues that have seen many people kill their spouses and walk out on marriages.

In an interview on Citizen Digital, Letoo said just because he believes in polygamy does not necessarily mean that he is practising it.

He said that he only wants the wife he marries to be aware so that should he decide to bring in a second wife, she should not have issues with him.

Letoo admitted coming from a humble polygamous family and explained that in most of those types of family arrangements, even when the parents were fighting, the kids were always sticking together.

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CHRISTINE Brown has given her followers a glimpse of her toned torso in a new video.

The Sister Wives star recorded a chatty clip on her Instagram Stories yesterday.

In the video, Christine sat in her car completely makeup-free, with a floral headband pulling her long wavy hair back from her face.

She wore a light pink ribbed top, with the plunging v-shape showing off her slim neck and toned dcolletage.

The TLC star chatted away happily, saying: "Car confessions! So recently I went to visit my sister Wendy in New Jersey, and they're like obsessed with grapefruits there.

"I told her I really don't like grapefruits, they're just not worth the time it takes to cut them and all of that, basically they're just nasty. And she was like, 'you just haven't had a good grapefruit yet.'"

"So anyway, she mailed me some grapefruits! Check it out," she exclaimed, as she held a box of fruits to the camera.

The50-year-oldhilariously added while giggling: "But I don't even know how to tell if they're ripe, so I'm gonna have to call her, check every single one over the phone. I don't know!"

On April 13, Christine shared the exciting news thatshe was engaged to her boyfriend,David Woolley, after announcing hersplit from ex-husband Kodyin November 2021.

The announcement came just days after The U.S. Sun reported that the reality star was"ready to marry."

However, not everyone is pleased withthe speed of the couple's relationship.

Earlier this month, Christine's sonPaedonshared onTikTok: "Last night [I told Christine]: Hey Mom, youre going fast. Im not telling you to slow down.

"I just want you to be aware that youre rushing this... very, very quickly."

Reportedly, Kody Brown's exesChristineandJanelle Brown, 53,have been secretly working on a new show idea.

The U.S. Sun previously reported that the pair were "gearing towards their own show."

However, the duo'sstrained relationshipdue to Christine's new romance could postpone those plans.

A source also told The U.S. Sun: "Christinehas abandoned the whole Sister Wives covenant. She's working on trying to get her own show."

"It could be either heavily focused on her cooking, or her life after polygamy."

In February 2022, Christine started her owndigital cooking show, Cooking with Just Christine.

But it appears she hasn't uploaded new cooking videos in months after Season 2 premiered in September.

The insider continued: "David, for sure, would be featured on her spinoff, and her children - 100 percent Mykelti."

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Two people getting married and staying reserved till death do them apart has been a classic tale.

But not for everyone.

A polyamorous Brazilian man reportedly guy built a 20-foot bed for his six wives for Rs 80 lakh.

The bedroom essential was put together by the man named Arthur O Urso over the course of 15 months with the assistance of 12 people and 950 screws. Arthur once had nine wives, four of whom divorced him, reported News18.

The So Paulo resident and his swinger wife Luana decided to open up their six-marriage setup in 2021.

The six wives are identified as Valquria Santos, Damiana, Amandha Albuquerque, Olinda Maria, Luana Kazaki, and Emelly Souza.

Although it is not enforceable under law because polygamy is prohibited in his nation, Arthur and Liana formally established their connection with additional women at a Catholic church.

The seven members of the group even have an OnlyFans page where they provide sex advice and publish videos and images of their intimate antics. From the platform, they make roughly Rs 50 lakh each month.

The man, who had previously made headlines for having difficulty appeasing each of his women, made a schedule in order to provide equal enjoyment to all of them.

So, what is a polyamorous relationship really? Is it ethical? Lets take a look.

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Understanding polyamorous relationship

According to WebMD, polyamorous people have multiple loving, intentional, and intimate relationships at the same time.

It is a type of open or non-monogamous relationship that follows certain guidelines.

It excludes all forms of open relationships, including those with more casual sexual partners.

Each partner in many polyamorous relationships is aware of the others.

Relationships or friendships between partners are also possible.

Some people find such relationships more comfortable than monogamous relationships.

Two years ago, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smiths daughter Willow Smith opened up about polyamory on Red Table Talk.

She said, With polyamory, I think the main foundation is the freedom to be able to create a relationship style that works for you and not just stepping into monogamy because thats what everyone around you says is the right thing to do. I was like, how can I structure the way that I approach relationships with that in mind?

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Its complex

Each polyamorous relationship is unique and complex.

USA Today quoted Washington University Professor of law Adrienne Davis as saying that such relationships in the United States dates back to 19th century when Free Love and transcendentalist movements were at peak.

According to Davis, it only grew popular in 1960s and early 1970s with the counterculture and sexual liberation movements.

In contrast to monogamous partnerships, people in polyamorous relationships create their own rules and preferred boundaries for their interactions.

The commitment to safer sex is among the most significant agreements shared by polyamorous individuals.

This usually refers to a restriction about who they will engage in unprotected sex with as well as methods of birth control for those who are capable of becoming pregnant.

In polyamorous partnerships, this is crucial to preventing the spread of STDs or unintended pregnancy.

Terms to know

Solo polyamory: Individuals who date several people but do not have primary partnerships. In their personal lives, they continue to be largely independent, according to WebMD.

Polyfidelity: A group of three or more persons who are dedicated to one another and do not date outside the group.

Hierarchical polyamory: It refers to people withprimary relationships to which they give the most time and attention, while secondary and tertiary relationships receive less of both. The primary partner could have more influence over crucial choices.

Non-hierarchical polyamory: It describes those who dont have a partner hierarchy. Alternative names for it include relationshipanarchy and egalitarian polyamory. In this kind of relationship, equal time and attention may be given to each partner and they might also have an equal say in crucial decisions.

Compersion: A sensation of joy that results from seeing your lover happy with another person, as opposed to envy, according to Instyle magazine.

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Common myths

1. Its cheating on a partner

No, people in polyamorous relationships are open and honest with each other about their other partners, since it depends on honesty, integrity, and communication, says WebMD.

2. Afraid of commitment

Though it looks different since traditional relationships such as marriage can be difficult, polyamorous relationships are still committed relations.

3. No true intimacy

Many believe having multiple partners detracts from intimacy.

However, polyamorous people create more intimacy with multiple people due to vulnerability and communication, explains the website.

4. Wild sex life

Yes, they do, but the primary focus is building loving, intimate relationships.

With inputs from agencies

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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta today told the Supreme Court that arguments of right to choice and sexual orientation raised by the petitioners seeking legal recognition for marriages between non-binary, non-heterosexual, or transgender persons may tomorrow be raised to defend incestous relationships.

"Visualise a situation, when a person is attracted to those persons who are mentioned in prohibited relationships. Incest not uncommon in the world and world over it is prohibited...Suppose a person is attracted to his sister, can they say we are consenting adults, we're entering into activities privately and we claim our right of autonomy, choice. Based on that very argument can someone not challenge this definition (of prohibited degrees)? Why this restriction? Who are you to decide with whom?" SG submitted.

"That will be far-fetched," Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud promptly remarked.

"We used to treat even thi as far-fetched," the SG responded.

CJI then said, "Sexual orientation or your autonomy as an individual can never be exercised in all aspects of marriage including the entry into marriage, the prohibited relationships, the grounds on which marriage can be dissolved...these are all subject to regulation by law. So these are very far fetched for anybody to even argue before us that orientation is so absolute that I can therefore commit an act of incest. No court will ever countenance this."

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SG argued that people can also challenge polygamy on such grounds. "People may say my choice is polygamy...arguments the way they are read for marriage...can be made, whether accepted or not is one thing, for challenging incest and prohibited degrees," he argued.

At this juncture, Justice Bhat emphasized,

"But these are universal rules. As long as these were not codified, they were accepted. That was the law, the norm. If you're building up to this and saying there is a state interest in this relationship, one can understand. There are certain interests of the state which are legitimate."

SG Mehta then submitted that State can regulate certain relationships if the State feels that it is in legitimate interest to do so. "Therefore, marriage was not a regulated relationship. But state in its legislative policy wisdom decided that we will regulate and we can regulate only when we recognise...When your lordships were hearing Navtej, all these arguments were made. The central government said we leave it to the wisdom of the court so far as decriminalisation of Section 377 IPC is concerned but added that this has nothing to do with future right of marriage, inheritance, etc."

SG then moved on to contend that if such marriages were to be permitted, as many as 160 provisions would be affected, leading to irreconcilable differences in the statutory framework of the country.

"See the definition of full blood and half blood (in relation to "degrees of prohibited relationship" in Special Marriage Act)...we can never reconcile this provision - it says that one man has given birth to a child with a biological woman. Marriage between lesbians- that can't be read because it wouldn't be full blood...Merely changing man and woman into person will make many provisions irreconcilable and this full blood will have inevitable impact of succession," SG Mehta argued.

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Case Title: Supriyo v. Union of India | Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1011 of 2022

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Years ago, I asked my mother why she had nine kids, and she responded that her mother and mother-in-law kept telling her that it is the only way to avoid polygamy; some children and all husbands are disobedient. Twenty years later, my Pakistani Canadian friend, Saima, when she consulted me on the idea of freezing her eggs, argued that she could not afford to have a baby and pursue her education and career.

Her income is insufficient to cover the expenses of a baby in Montreal or New York, and support is not made available either by her husband or through affordable babysitting and kindergarten services. Both Saima and my mother, with a two-decade gap between them, were pushed to take their reproductive decision by economic and societal social norm factors far from national or global population growth trends. We live in an almost polarised demographic world; population anxiety is at both poles of increasing and decreasing population. The common feature is that both are focused on the outcome (population size and fertility levels) away from the root causes and the dynamics through which reproductive decisions are made.

In the past, families wanted to have more children because of child mortality and the need for a workforce, and to have more fighters in a world made of a tribal system that linked all good values, such as courage, strength, decisiveness, etc, to men and the risks of failing, such as keeping honour and avoiding stigma and shame, to women. Therefore, we inherited from them the preference for boys over girls. Governments with high population growth rates, including Pakistan, got anxious because of their inability to create enough jobs and provide decent education and health services to all and the security threats they might face with increasingly growing unemployed youth.

Therefore, they direct their thinking around reducing fertility. While governments with declining populations got anxious about the future of the nation. For example, during an informal chat, an ambassador from an Eastern European country hinted at a sort of blame on UNFPA for advocating an increased dose of womens rights to the extent that some women have lost direction and forgotten their reproductive duty to produce more babies for the nations existence.

Historically, governments failed to understand or accept the fact that peoples reproductive decisions do not factor in the opinion of politicians, academics and experts regarding population growth they have their own reasons for having more or fewer children. UNFPA launched the annual report on the State of World Population last week, identifying rising population anxiety and urging a radical rethink of how countries address changing demographics.

The report notices that increasing population anxieties are widespread, and governments are increasingly adopting policies aimed at raising, lowering or maintaining fertility rates. But efforts to influence fertility rates are very often ineffective and can erode womens rights. The landmark report called for a radical rethink of how population numbers are framed, urging politicians and media to abandon overblown narratives about population booms and busts.

Instead of asking how fast people are reproducing, leaders should ask whether individuals, especially women, are able to freely make their own reproductive choices a question whose answer, too often, is no. Womens bodies should not be held captive to population targets, says UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem, adding, To build thriving and inclusive societies, regardless of population size, we must radically rethink how we talk about and plan for population change. Family planning must not be used as a tool for achieving fertility targets; it is a tool for empowering individuals. Women and couples should be able to choose if, when and how many children they would like to have, free from the coercion of pundits and officials.

Governments must first realise that deciding to have children is an individual and couples decision, not a community or a public affair. Governments must realise that any attempt to intervene in this matter will face push-back from society for religious, cultural, liberal, political and many other reasons, and the outcome will be a distortion of the demography of society that leaves negative socioeconomic multiplier effects. The proper approach is the human rights that promote the fact that getting babies is an individual decision.

Branding such decisions as good or bad is a bad idea; people should freely decide if they want to get babies and choose how many. Nevertheless, it is important to understand the dynamics in which families take decisions, and governments should do their best to ensure the right people make their own reproductive choices; women should not be pushed to get pregnant and not be forced to become infertile; they should take their decisions in the context of an approach of bodily integrity and autonomy.

Governments also need to ensure that whatever the decision is, families are provided with all proper services, information and understanding to implement their own reproductive decision. Women are not accountable for the nations problems; they are victims of social norms. Nobody should hold women accountable for population decline or increase. This matter is an outcome of the societal values shaped over years by the men-led States organs, including media, supporting programmes, and the enabling environment to decide. In countries facing population decline like Singapore, Japan, Poland, Germany, etc, we observe the difficulties that women face to have babies without compromising their human capital gains as professionals and human beings whose lives are in accumulated development and progress.

In those societies, babies can come once women feel that they do not have to choose to get pregnant or continue their progress in life; when they realise that having another baby will not distort their future and spoil their economic aspirations due to costly childcare, babysitting, education, recreation and getting a healthy child whose mother can continue her own progress. Making the best services, advocacy and information in which women and couples can make informed decisions is the most appropriate approach to address population anxiety. All other alternative attempts proved not to work very well. In a nutshell, enjoying reproductive rights is the key.

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