By Sarah Terzo
Barbara Katz Rothman, author of The Tentative Pregnancy, discusses the pressure that pregnant women who have been shown to be carrying unborn babies with disabilities are under to abort:
“It seems that, in gaining the choice to control the quality of our children, we may be losing the choice of simply accepting them as they are.”
BK Rothman from Test Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood. Quoted in Janet Hadley’s Abortion: between Freedom and Necessity (Great Britain: Virago Press) 1996.
Editor’s note. This appeared at Clinic Quotes and is reposted with permission.