Pro-choice author Rosalind Petchesky writes:
“For a Native American woman on welfare, who every time she appears in the clinic for prenatal care is asked whether she would not like an abortion, “the right to choose an abortion” may appear dubious if not offensive.”
Rosalind Petchesky Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom (London: Verso, 1986) 8
This author is acknowledging that minorities, especially poor minorities, are often pressured to abort their children.
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