So Here I Am: Speeches by great women

POLITICS
SO HERE I AM:
Speeches by great women

BY ANNA RUSSELL AND
CAMILA PINHEIRO

ENGLISH EDITION:
WHITE LION PRESS, 2019

TRANSLATION OF SIMONE VEIL’S
1974 SPEECH ON ABORTION:
2,700 WORDS.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: Veil’s ground-breaking political speech is a masterpiece of rhetoric, and the translation aims to bring some of that rhythm of the original into the English version. The text published consists of excerpts only.