Any non-celibate woman in her fertile years knows the anxiety about an unexpected positive pregnancy test — from disquiet to shock and panic if the barriers to having and bringing up a child are forbidding. From the moment of a positive test, a woman’s options are changed.
And that’s before we get to the consequences of rape, abuse or deceit. Altogether, for all the advances of the morning-after pill, the wide number of reasons which lead women to seek an abortion are a reminder of why the freedom to do so matters.
