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Colombian Women Get Results by Saying: No Sex til Roads Are Repaired

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 Women in a small town in southwestern Colombia have stopped having sex with their significant others to protest the terrible condition of a road that connects their town to the rest of Colombia. Women in labor have died on the way to the hospital due to poor roads. The campaign, dubbed the "crossed legs movement," seems to be working.
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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