Word: authored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second paragraph, the author announced that the anti-abortion movement aims to make abortion illegal and send "thousands of women back to the horror and death of self-induced and back alley abortions or the enslavement of forced pregnancy." Later he argued that "forced reproduction is a shackle on all women preventing their full participation in society...
...sympathize with the author's practical concerns about women who would seek illegal abortions and thus put their health at risk if the Supreme Court ever overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. (Attorney General Richard Thornburgh recently predicted that the Court would overturn Roe and let states enact their own abortion laws.) The government must address this problem and the problem of punishments for violators before it can ever safely and successfully illegalize abortion...
...while the author's concerns on this front are justifiable, it's hard to understand why he repeatedly implied that women inevitably must have sex and get pregnant. The author completely ignored the simple fact that a woman gets pregnant when two adults have sex, an act from which both women and men are usually free to restrain...
...author of the pamphlet blames anti-abortionists for wanting to keep women in the "enslavement of pregnancy" when it is often the woman who, knowing the risks, consents to sex in the first place...
...that just because some people want to outlaw abortion, that does not automatically mean they have something against women or that they are fascist. If they want to make a strong case for choice, they ought to point to rape and the sex education problem. Accusations such as this author's only cloud the debate on abortion and make finding workable solutions to this divisive issue that much more difficult...