In the majority of these cases, women were either young and at the beginning of their reproductive lives, or felt reproductively healthy, despite their prolonged postpartum recuperation.
The "scandal" that propelled Abbott's early political life was women taking control over their reproductive lives.
Women have a right to control their own reproductive lives no matter what".
One of poverty's most pervasive causes is the lack of control that young women have over their reproductive lives.
This is a dangerous fantasy when it occludes the harsh realities and struggles of women's reproductive lives.
Abortion and adoption are two ends of the same spectrum — women having choices about their reproductive lives.
Thankfully, so far in the United States at least, government has not decided to dictate decisions about individual citizens' reproductive lives.
Abstinence from sex is often the only available form of birth control, little solace for women who have limited power over their own reproductive lives.
Solinger concludes that motherhood itself has become a "class privilege" in America, with poor women stigmatized as "bad" choice-makers whose reproductive lives must be controlled.
Because contraception sometimes fails, abortion is considered a crucial and normal part of women's reproductive lives everywhere else in the developed world.
Tone vigorously contends the contrary -- that the development of these devices was advanced by birth control advocates to give women control over their bodies and reproductive lives.
