Minette Doderer, politician in Iowa who is pro-choice
“You know, I don’t like to think about [abortion]. Every once in a while it comes across my mind: why am I doing this, defending abortion rights? Who likes to think of themselves killing a fetus? But then I think: I’m not the one making the decision. Another woman is doing it. And I don’t think that anyone connected with the pregnant woman has the right to do anything but discuss it with her.”
Roger Rosenblatt. Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind (New York: Random House, 1992) 147
Doderer may be uncomfortable with abortion, in rationalize her support of it by putting all the blame on the woman herself, but her own actions and votes on legislation are what is keeping abortion legal and available.
