The Constraints of Abortion

Claire Wells: Silence and secrecy attend unwanted pregnancies whether they're legal or not. One in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime, according to a 2017 Oxford University study. Women who have abortions aren't properly or quite wholesomely still women unless they can prove that they've kind of morally debated and discriminated about it enough for them to count as "deep subjective thinkers," she says. Wells: I think it has to do with the way that abortion breaks a kind of code of moral discrimination, moral feeling.