Pro-choice author and creator of the “I had an abortion” T-shirt campaign quoted the following in her book “Abortion & Life”:
“Every woman who is pregnant wonders if she has a bedroom for that child; can she afford to take off the time to raise that child? … When women don’t have jobs or health care, where is the choice? There is nothing worse than a woman aborting a baby she wanted because she couldn’t support it.”
Loretta Ross, a pro-choice activist and national coordinator of SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective.
It is very commendable that Ross is advocating for better services for pregnant women and their families. Feminists for Life has been doing that for years, and now, finally, members of the pro-choice community are seeing the need as well, and recognizing that a woman coerced into aborting her baby by life circumstances is a bad thing. However, it is disturbing that Ross has no problem referring to the unborn “fetus” as a “child” and a “baby”- but still finds it acceptable to kill him or her.
Jennifer Baumgardner “Abortion & Life” (New York, NY: Akashic Books, 2008) 67
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