Our Bodies, Our Souls

Rethinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric

[I wrote this essay in 1995; it was first published in The New Republic. It has had an impact and been much republished, often in pro-life anthologies.

It is a protest, though from a position of struggle as a young, pregnant pro-choice advocate, against the devaluing in our culture of human life.

I owe a debt to Feminists for Life for ope…