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Birth Control
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 63, Number 2, Spring 2016
- pp. 136-142
- 10.1353/dss.2016.0032
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The women’s liberation movement changed the meaning of abortion. By emphasizing reproduction control as a woman’s right, the movement made abortion rights part of a feminist agenda, not just a family planning necessity. As a result, abortion became, for religious conservatives, exhibit A in feminism’s plot to destroy the family.