A Spark of Light

by Jodi Picoult

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”

The average anti-choice protester is”—he lowered his voice—“a middle-aged Caucasian male.”

These women claimed to be pro-life and insisted the fetus was sacred, until it happened to be inside them and didn’t square with their life expectations.

What hellish tributary of evolution had made reproduction—and all the shit that came with it—the woman’s job?

Even if you placed moral value on that fetus, you couldn’t give it rights unless they were stripped away from the woman carrying it. Perhaps the question wasn’t When does a fetus become a person? but When does a woman stop being one?

who would argue that there was no difference in the moral implication of chopping down a hundred-year-old oak tree versus stepping on an acorn?

For women in poverty, abortion rates increased 18 percent. For wealthy women, abortion declined by 24 percent.

In fact seven out of ten women who terminated a pregnancy made less than $22,000

“I don’t need people shaming me because of a choice that already hurt my heart to have to make.”