Adrienne Rich

If the right to abortion is a stepping- stone toward freedom, it can be so only along with other kinds of stepping-stones, other kinds of action.

as is the negative or suspect status of women who are not mothers

The antiabortion movement trivializes women’s impulses toward education, independence, self-determination as self-indulgence. Its deepest unwritten text is not about the right to life, but about women’s right to be sexual, to separate sexuality from procreation, to have charge over our procreative capacities.