Sally Markowitz Abortion

Sally Markowitz explains in her essay why it is right to abortion sometimes. She points out that some women are forced such as with rape. It should be our choice to give the abortion because it is our bodies, and we should decide what is right. She also points out that women’s oppression is not right, because the majority who control it are men. Women are always sexually oppressed by men so by having the right of abortion it should not be up to men.
Why is it that women have to get an abortion because they are poor and “don’t have a choice.” Markowitz says that there have to be sacrifices whether the men like it or not. For men to make choices for the women to have an abortion or not is stripping them from those rights. Saying that "women's oppression is the status quo. Even if individual women are compensated by money, services, or opportunities, sexual oppression may remain" ( Markowitz, 122) focuses completely on women's rights, as the
She also mentions that "from a feminist perspective, however, abortion is a political issue, one which essentially concerns the interests of and power relations between men and women" . This might be true for some politicians, however, I would not label abortion as a political issue, but rather as an issue of morality. Nobody should gain from arguing on whether killings should be legal or not solely for a political benefit. This should not be an issue of feminism, but an issue of the moral ethics. Talking about how abortion is aimed against women, or benefits men, is losing the main point - the right to life of the