By Erika Bachiochi
ISBN-10: 1594030510
ISBN-13: 9781594030512
ISBN-10: 1594030774
ISBN-13: 9781594030772
Captures the ethical, felony, clinical and political complexities surrounding abortion.
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In so many ways now, on so many days, I feel as though I am still living in the shadow of Mönchberg. When I was about five months pregnant with my third child, Peter, I got a copy of this: Patient: Schiltz, Elizabeth Abbott Northwestern Hospital Cytogenetics Laboratory This is the karyotype of one of Petey’s cells that was floating in amniotic fluid extracted from my womb by a big needle during a procedure called amniocentesis. The arrow in the karyotype points out that Petey’s cells have three, rather than the usual two, copies of chromosome number 21.
It was not until 1966 that the National Organization for Women included abortion in its list of goals. Even then, abortion had a low priority. 5 Lader had been working to repeal the anti-abortion laws based on concerns over population growth, but state legislators were horrified by his ideas. )6 The Feminist Case Against Abortion 35 Lader teamed up with a gynecologist, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, to co-found the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, the forerunner of today’s NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Boys as well as girls should be included in the remedy. Groups like Feminists for Life and pregnancy resource centers regularly get calls from women who are pressured by partners who say they will pay $300 for an abortion but will not pay a dime in child support. Men and boys need to know that, thanks to laws that strengthen child support enforcement and paternity establishment, they can no longer coerce women into having abortions by threatening to abandon their children if they are born. But fathers need to do more than make payments.
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