Opposition Because of Repression

And the third category - women who are drawn into support of those against abortion on various grounds, all of which relate to their own oppression. Many of these woman an will eventually be on the side of abortion law reform or repeal.

Some of these women are won over to an anti-abortion viewpoint by the appeals to so-called maternal instincts. The emotive references to "unborn" children" is no more sensible than "unconceived child" or "unborn adult" for that matter. However, this "unborn child" approach gets across to some women who then say they are against abortion. We must explain to those women why it's nonsense to think of foetuses as children, and encourage them to think more clearly about what is really involved; women who don't want to continue a pregnancy, and potential babies which these women are not prepared to give birth to because they would be unwanted.