Is Abortion Really a Women’s Rights Issue?
Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL, says: “We have to remind people that abortion is the guarantor of a woman’s… right to participate fully in the social and political life of society.” But a pregnant woman can fully participate in society. And if she can’t, isn’t the solution changing society rather than killing children? “How can women achieve equality without control of their reproductive lives?” Feminists for Life responds: The premise of the question is the premise of male domination throughout the millennia—that it was nature which made men superior and women inferior. Medical technology is offered as a solution to achieve equality; but the premise is wrong…. It’s an insult to women to say women must change their biology in order to fit into society. In her essay, “Feminism: Bewitched by Abortion,” environmentalist Rosemary Bottcher argues that the feminist movement has degraded women by portraying them as unable to handle the stress and pressures of pregnancy withou
