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September 25, 2012 News & Features » Cover Story

Fight Club 

How Shelley Abrams and a band of activists are reframing Virginia's debate over abortion.

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When she was 13, the fight had already started. Shelley Abrams, the daughter of a steelworker and a women's rights activist, often got yanked out of her classes at Central Park Christian School in Birmingham, Ala. The teachers needed her for…

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