The Audacity Of No: Woman, You Have The Right To Say No.
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5 min readMay 8, 2024
If one word had to sum up this post it would be “NO”. The right to say “NO” must never be forgotten, in all contexts relating to the body.
Here is the story of Valentine Mackmelen, a 22-year-old who never gave consent to her doctor to proceed with a second examination of her body. Yet, the doctor still insisted on going through with it.