Emily Erickson’s Reviews > Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights > Status Update

... Instead of acknowledging that a woman ending a pregnancy usually has a good sense of what she can offer a child - which is why she didn't get pregnant intentionally in the first place - we do our best to make her feel like a bad person."

"So having an abortion becomes an evasion of the responsibility to be prudent and continent. Yet it is precisely because having a baby determines so much about a woman's life, and because women take maternal responsibilities so seriously, that they have abortions. ...

"Part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world."