In America, we're made to believe that the opposite of abortion is motherhood. We're told that people who have abortions do so to avoid becoming mothers, and that people who are mothers clearly didn't have abortions—our "minds blown" when we learn otherwise. We're taught that if motherhood represents a kind of fundamental unselfishness, a self-sacrificing surrender in the name of the greater good, then abortion—a basic exercise in autonomy—is its antithesis.
And yet nothing has made me more pro-choice than becoming a mother.
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