Abortion: It’s primal. We need to talk.

“A dark-haired woman with a backpack hiking among green trees and bushes” by Michelle Spencer on Unsplash

The movement to legalize abortion, the women’s movement was my mother- substitute for a while. I came into the work to legalize abortion as a nearly 20-year-old, anti-war activist in 1971, just a year or two before Roe v Wade.

The year before, at 19, I had been a virgin. But in trying to mature, to shake off fear due to (unnamed, unacknowledged) incest, and going to college, under the influence of my girlfriends, all of…