Abstract
Like the labors of Sisyphus, the abortion issue's persistence in American politics seems interminable. As the gender gap threatens to become a yawning chasm, the Republican party commits itself to a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion; the Reagan administration cuts off aid to world population control programs that maintain the abortion alternative; the film The Silent Scream plays at the White House; violent attacks on women's health clinics mount; shots are fired into the home of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun; the Department of Justice asks the Supreme Court to reverse its ruling in Roe v. Wade; and the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops denounces as logically untenable the notion that one can personally oppose abortion and at the same time support the availability of that option for others.' Feminist scholarship on reproductive freedom is vast, well established,
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