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Pro-Choicer: Abortion is a Godsend

Jun 17, 2019

By Sarah Terzo

Pro-choice activist Barbara Baird:

“It is from this woman’s perspective that it’s so demeaning, and ridiculous, to suggest that abortion is by definition a negative and unfortunate experience… For the woman who is pregnant and not wanting to be so, an abortion could easily and logically be understood as a godsend.”

Barbara Baird. “Somebody Was Going to Disapprove Anyway”: Rethinking Histories of Abortion in South Australia, 1937 – 1990″, PhD thesis. Adelaide, SA: Flinders University

Quoted in: Erica Millar, Happy Abortions: Our Bodies in the Era of Choice (London: Zed Books, 2017)/

Editor’s note. This appeared at Clinic Quotes and is reposted with permission.

Categories: Abortion
Tags: abortion