Leslie Savan wrote the following in the Village Voice:
“…many women of my generation are replacing having children with having abortions, not only in a literal sense but also as a major rite of passage …”wanted unwanted pregnancies” become attractive in the first place because of interacting and not-always conscious motives, among them:
• a desire to know we’re fertile
• to test the commitment of the man…
• abortion as a rite of passage…the fact that more women are aborting makes it more permissible, even intriguing…
• torn between “femininity” and “feminism” getting pregnant proves we are feminine while getting the abortion proves we are feminist…
Leslie Savan,, “Abortion Chic: Attraction of ‘Wanted-Unwanted’ Pregnancies” The Village Voice, February 4, 1981.
