March is Women’s History Month, when we celebrate the accomplishments of the brave women who marched before us.

The first wave of feminists rallied support for their movement in the 1800s by embracing efforts to grant women the legal right to vote. The second wave of feminists in the 1960s, inspired by Betty Friedan’s landmark book The Feminine Mystique, eventually embraced another legislative mandate that coalesced their movement: the fight to legalize abortion. As we assess the impact abortion has had on women’s rights today, we find that instead of liberating women, abortion has hindered our progress in achieving true equality.