The notion of a separate and independent existence was more than Storer would admit to women, over whom he felt justified in exerting enormous control. His idea that the fetus was a person and the woman’s uterus a mere resting spot for it is one still employed by antiabortion advocates today, complete with pictures of a fetus floating in a pink cloud blissfully devoid of context. The fact that the fetus is so entwined with a woman’s body that birthing it regularly caused her to die was not something Storer was overly concerned with,
