Time to heed a pro-choice feminist’s warning

Published November 3, 2015 5:01am ET



Twenty years ago last month, self-described “radical feminist” author Naomi Wolf wrote about the “pro-choice” movement, of which she was and is a part of, “…[W]e stand in jeopardy of losing what can only be called our souls.” In her prescient 1995 essay “Our Bodies, Our Souls,” she lamented:

“Clinging to a rhetoric about abortion in which there is no life and no death, we entangle our beliefs in a series of self-delusions, fibs and evasions. And we risk becoming precisely what our critics charge us with being: callous, selfish and casually destructive men and women who share a cheapened view of human life.”

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