Category: Pro-Life Movement

Pro-choice activist and former NARAL president Kate Michelman said in the New York Times in 1988:

“… The antiabortion side has in some ways won the public debate, captured the terms and framed the issues. There is very little discussion these days about how every dimension of a woman’s life is influenced by the right to reproductive freedom. We have to remind people that abortion is the guarantor of a woman’s full right to choose and her right to participate fully in the social and political life of society.”

Tamar Lewin “Legal Abortion under Fierce Attack 15 Years after Roe V Wade Ruling” New York Times May 10, 1988

In her memoir, Sarah Weddington writes that she did not expect the pro-life movement to emerge and fight abortion, and that the abortion issue was settled after Roe v. Wade:

“Initially I joined others in thinking that the basic question had been settled: abortion was and would continue to be legal. In a few years, I thought, the decision would be accepted, abortion would become a part of routine medical practice, and the opposition would go away. Until that time, we just needed to protect what we had won.”

Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 195