Arcana in Abortion is a Motherhood Issue focuses on how abortion is not just not wanting a child but has a lot of other elements and that women decide to do it for themselves and for the child depending on what they think is best. I thought this article was very interesting coming from a woman who says she had a child and then after that had an abortion. She does not tell the circumstances of her abortion but that she has been through it is interesting. She says that women can be perceived as not considering the child they would have and just being selfish, but she says that this is impossible and that women cannot not think of the possibilities and consider the options and how the child’s life would be.
In How It All Began: I Have Had an Abortion talks about the history of how women have to fight to get abortion legalized and they steps they took to do so. It discussion the way that women had to hide the fact that they got abortions and shows how brave the women who admitted having abortions were and how essential their work and stories were to the passing of new laws that made abortion legal. These women are really inspiring in how they fought for what they wanted and were able to tell the world what they went through.
These readings both centered on abortion and the implications of abortion on the mother and perceptions of someone who has an abortion. The readings also talked about how women fought for abortions and how hard this fight was for women and how much they had to sacrifice for other women’s rights. In this current time with the funding cuts for Planned Parenthood, some people might be inspired by the second article and be willing to fight for availability of abortions.
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