Laura X

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instead, people like Laura X, the activist that I talk at significant length in the book, and I did interview her for it, she was so outraged.

Right.

And that is a personality type that is really good for a certain type of activism where you're gathering information and then sending it out and trying to work with legislators.

Where activists in every state were doing things like what you described in Missouri, where they were trying to get the attention of legislators and then creating language that legislators could then introduce as bills, and then they could get voted on, and then eventually they would either become law or not, or sometimes they would become law and get repealed and then become law again.

And it was this, you know, there was perpetual and forward motion.

And it was to the point where Laura X, a few years after North Carolina made marital rape a crime, where she wrote this essay with the help of some of her volunteers called Accomplishing the Impossible.

It was essentially a timeline of how the National Clearinghouse for Marital and Date Rape had gone from essentially zero to all 50.