“What we are saying is that abortion becomes one of the choices, and the person has the right to choose whatever it is that is best that they need as necessary and best for them in that situation for which they find themselves, be it abortion, to keep, to adopt, to sell, to leave in a dumpster, to put on your porch, whatever: it’s the person’s right to choose.”
Esther Langston, professor of Social Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Public debate on abortion at the campus of the University of Nevada, at the Hendrix Auditorium December 4, 1989. As recorded by Mark Wiegand (Quoted in Francis J. Beckwith “Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights” (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1993) p 174)
