It remains hotly contested to say that abortion is backup birth control. I think it is obvious that abortion is used that way. With few exceptions, the personal stories of abortion women have shared with me were essentially abortion as a backup to failed birth control stories.
And so it is, from Cecile Richards herself:
It was a decision my husband and I made. It was a personal decision. And we have three children that we adore and that are the center of my life. And we decided that was as big as our family needed to be. That was really the story. It wasn’t anything more dramatic than that.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
One more comment: Pregnancy and child bearing–they sound like a choice you plan out until they aren’t. The women who know this most profoundly are the women experiencing infertility, for whatever reason. They’ve been told they can have a child at the time of their choosing. When that doesn’t pan out, they hit the non-choiceness of it all hard.
Cecile Richards: “We have three children… That was as big as our family needed to be.
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Sorry, having a hard time understanding that last paragraph. What was the good to come out of the sexual revolution? The way I’m reading it is that either the notion that a child is a choice, or infertility was the good that came out of the sexual revolution, but that can’t be what you meant.
Yes that was poorly phrased. I just meant that we’ve hit a point in the sexual revolution where many more women would be forced to concede that reproductive freedom was a myth, because they hoped to conceive but then couldn’t will this into existence. Infertility is not good, and children are not choices. I’ll re-write.
well actually I deleted that last bit. was easier since I wasn’t clear.