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By Now, Abortion Should Be Obsolete. And I - And Probably A Lot Of Other Feminists - Wish It Were Obsolete, Because Abortion, In Itself, Is Not A Value - It Is Simply The Right To Chose, Which Is An Essential Value.

Certain Signs, Some Of Them Visible To The Layman As Well As The Scientist, Indicate That We Have Been Watching An Ice Age Approach For Some Time Without Realizing What We Are Seeing... Scientists Predict That It Will Cause Great Snows Which The World Has Not Seen Since The Last Ice Age Thousands Of Years Ago.

What Had Really Caused The Women's Movement Was The Additional Years Of Human Life. At The Turn Of The Century Women's Life Expectancy Was Forty-six; Now It Was Nearly Eighty. Our Groping Sense That We Couldn't Live All Those Years In Terms Of Motherhood Alone Was "the Problem That Had No Name." Realizing That It Was Not Some Freakish Personal Fault But Our Common Problem As Women Had Enabled Us To Take The First Steps To Change Our Lives.

If Women’s Role In Life Is Limited Solely To Housewife/mother, It Clearly Ends When She Can No Longer Bear More Children And The Children She Has Borne Leave Home.

I Won A Really Big Fellowship To Go Straight On To Get My Ph.d. And I Went Through Agonies Of Indecision, And Then I Decided Not To Accept It. I Just Decided I Didn't Want To Be An Academic.