Abortion Anecdotes and the Law

As a woman who knows what it feels like to dread the results of a home pregnancy test, I must disagree with Tavris when she asserts that my views on abortion mean that I care less about women than for their fetuses. On the contrary, women are exactly who I care about. I don’t see women making lots of happy, autonomous decisions about reproduction. Rather, I see a new societal fast track for women that starts with earlier expectations of sexual activity; continues through relationships with men who are increasingly unwilling to commit to partnership and fatherhood, and which ends in the abortion clinic. I don’t call this the feminist utopia I thought Roe vs. Wade was supposed to usher in.

SUSAN BROWN

Claremont