The Abortion Myth: Feminism, Morality, and the Hard Choices Women Make Book

Perhaps the to most disturbing thing in this pro-choice book the response when the author asked pro-choice people about artificial wombs. She asked pro-choice women whether, if they had an unwanted pregnancy, they would be willing to place their baby in an artificial womb and let it grow and be adopted, so they would not have to go through the pregnancy but didn't have to kill the baby. Unanimously, the pro-choicers rejected this. The author summarizes their beliefs by saying that the pro-choice position doesn't just mean ending a pregnancy, but also deciding that a fetus should die. To these pro-choicers, abortion isn't about an empty womb, it's about a dead baby. It was also hard to see so many women saying that they aborted for the good of their baby. That they loved their baby, so they had an abortion because then the child wouldn't grow up unwanted. I don't know if they really believe this, or were just saying it will assuage their consciences ever get. Putting aside that there are 2 million families in our country who want to adopt, it's never kind or loving to dismember someone.