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Argument: Abortion opens the door to the sexual exploitation of women

Issue Report: Abortion

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Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University and Vatican official, “The Women of ‘Roe v. Wade'”, First Things, June/July 2003 – “To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women. Women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton regarded free love, abortion, and easy divorce as disastrous for women and children. They would have regarded women who actively promoted those causes as foolish or deranged.”[1]

Alice Paul, author of the 1923 U.S. Equal Rights Amendment – “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.”[2]