From Anne Finger, clinic worker:
“Each day at the clinic I confronted what it meant to have come control over our wombs and less control over our social circumstances. You can decide to no longer be pregnant, you can walk into a clinic and plunk down your Medi-Cal card…or two hundred dollars in cash, but you can’t decide not to be poor anymore, or to have support so that you can finish school, or to have a partner who wants to raise a child with you…
We’ve won the right [to legal abortion] however tenuously, but now control of reproduction is expected; we are expected to have children when we can afford them, to schedule our pregnancies to coincide with the demands of education and employment….Our victories are always partial ones; we win part of what we wanted, and then find our victories turned into something else.”
Anne Finger. Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth (Seattle, Washington: Seal Press 1990) 55-56
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