Just imagine for a moment what life in this country might have been if women had been properly represented in Congress. Would a Co...ngress where women in all their diversity were represented tolerate the countless laws now on the books that discriminate against women in all phases of their lives? Would a Congress with adequate representation of women have allowed this country to reach the 1970s without a national health care system? Would it have permitted this country to rank fourteenth in infant mortality among the developed nations of the world? Would it have allowed the situation we now have in which thousands of kids grow up without decent care because their working mothers have no place to leave them? Would such a Congress condone the continued butchering of young girls and mothers in amateur abortion mills? Would it allow fraudulent packaging and cheating of consumers in supermarkets, department stores and other retail outlets? Would it consent to the perverted sense of priorities that has dominated our government for decades, where billions have been appropriated for war while our human needs as a people have been neglected?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the vice president thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequ...ately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The literal alternatives to [abortion] are suicide, motherhood, and, some would add, madness. Consequently, there is some confusio...n, discomfort, and cynicism greeting efforts to "find" or "emphasize" or "identify" alternatives to abortion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, you look so pretty in it Honey, can I jump on it sometime?... Yes, I just wanna see If it's really that expensive kind You know it balances on your head Just like a mattress balances On a bottle of wine Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and ...moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. C...ontrol over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose it would be nice to say ... that ... I realized I was making abortion-rights history.... But the honest truth is that no...thing like that even occurred to me. I was simply at the end of my rope. At a dead end. I just didn't know what else to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... an abortion is only horrible, but to deny life is satanic. Why then, I wonder, do priests and nuns remain unmarried? Why then ...are celibacy and self-control approved and exacted? What a priceless ideal for mothers to follow! To continue bearing children misshapen, deformed, hideous to the eyes, in the hope that Heaven may be filled! It's a monstrous doctrine, abhorrent of every civilized instinct in us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For ...what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things t...o make life easier for men, in fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »