Adrienne Rich

as is the negative or suspect status of women who are not mothers

The antiabortion movement trivializes women’s impulses toward education, independence, self-determination as self-indulgence. Its deepest unwritten text is not about the right to life, but about women’s right to be sexual, to separate sexuality from procreation, to have charge over our procreative capacities.

patience, self-sacrifice, the willingness to repeat endlessly the small, routine chores of socializing a human being