Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that force…

- Dawn Johnsen

The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortio…

- Dawn Johnsen

The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.

- Dawn Johnsen

Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'

- Dawn Johnsen

The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in t…

- Dawn Johnsen

Progressives must not portray all abortions as tragedies. . . Senator Hillary Clinton, in a 2005 speech commendable for setting forth a prochoice, pr…

- Dawn Johnsen

The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.

- Dawn Johnsen