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My body, my choice is a slogan describing freedom of choice on issues affecting the body and health, such as bodily autonomy, abortion and end-of-life care. The slogan emerged around 1969 [ 1 ] with feminists defending an individual's right of self determination over their bodies for sexual, marriage and reproductive choices as rights.
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
Albert Wynn and Gloria Feldt on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to rally for legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy ...
t. e. The United States anti-abortion movement[a] is a movement in the United States that opposes induced abortion and advocates for the protection of fetal life. Advocates support legal prohibition or restriction on ethical, moral, or religious grounds, arguing that human life begins at conception and that the human zygote, embryo or fetus is ...
Bill Baird (born June 20, 1932) is a reproductive rights pioneer, called by some media the "father" of the birth control and abortion-rights movement. [1][2][3] He was jailed eight times in five states in the 1960s for lecturing on abortion and birth control. [4] Baird is believed to be the first and only non-lawyer in American history with ...
e. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (formerly Susan B. Anthony List) is an American 501 (c) (4) non-profit [3] organization that seeks to reduce and ultimately end abortion in the US, [4] by supporting anti-abortion politicians, primarily women, [5] through its SBA Pro-Life America Candidate Fund political action committee. [6][7] Founded in ...
The March for Women's Lives was a protest demonstration held on April 25, 2004 at the National Mall in Washington, D. C. There was approximately 1.3 million participants. [1] The demonstration was led by seven groups; National Organization for Women, American Civil Liberties Union, Black Women’s Health Imperative, Feminist Majority, NARAL Pro ...
Abortion rights activists in São Paulo, Brazil. Abortion-rights movements, also self-styled as pro-choice movements, are movements that advocate for legal access to induced abortion services, including elective abortion. They seek to represent and support women who wish to terminate their pregnancy without fear of legal or social backlash.