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as quoted in Newsweek magazine (December 16, 1991)

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I think if a woman has a right to an abortion and to control her body, then she has the right to exploit her body and make money from it. We have it hard enough. Why give up one of our major assets?

Kathy Keeton

Kathy Keeton (b. 1939), U.S. magazine publisher. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (December 16, 1991).

Keeton, president of the highly risque and controversial Penthouse magazine, was defending nude photographs of women.

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