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Women must be free to control their reproductive lives.
First, abortion is not about reproduction. When a woman is
pregnant, reproduction has already taken place. Abortion is about
killing the child that has been produced. Second, what kind of
perverted mind sees the right to kill one’s own offspring as a symbol
of freedom? As pro-life feminist Frederica Mathewes-Green once
observed, a woman killing her child through abortion is like an animal
gnawing off its own leg to get out of a trap. Abortion, she said,
is not a sign that women are free, but that they are desperate.
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