In the following article: Paige Comstock Cunningham, Esq. “The Supreme Court and the creation of the two-dimensional woman” in Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion” (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004) 107-108
Pro-choice feminist Caroline Whitbeck called abortion “a grim operation,”
“The literature of abortion shows that many people are readily able to imagine themselves in the place of the fetus but not in the place of the pregnant woman, but if one is able to look at the matter from the perspective of the pregnant woman, it becomes clear how much violence is done to the woman by abortion, and therefore that the woman self-interest would lead her to avoid [unwanted pregnancy and] abortion if she had other options generally available.”
Caroline Whitebeck “Taking Women Seriously As People” in the Abortion Controversy: 25 Years after Roe Versus Wade editor Lewis P Pojman and Francis J Beckwith (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998) 434
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