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.
