The abortion isn’t what they(conservative pro-life men of 1940s) are thinking
about; they’re really thinking about sex. They’re really thinking
about love and reducing it to its most mechanical aspects—that is to
say, the mechanical fact of intercourse as a specific act to make
children in this world, and thinking of its use in any other way as
wrong and wicked. They are determined to reduce women’s normal sexual
responses, to end them, really, when we’ve just had a couple of
decades of admitting them.
— Grace Paley
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