Letters on Liberty: Abortion and the Freedom to Forge Our Own Fate
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Ann Furedi argues that debates about abortion often focus on abstract concepts of when human life begins in the womb. Instead, she argues that it is important to consider a different human life – that of the woman. The future of a woman’s pregnancy should be for her alone to decide, and this decision ought to be regarded as personal and private. There is no clearer illustration of the way choice, agency and responsibility matters than the consequences of a woman’s decision about her pregnancy, she says. To prevent someone from exercising their own choice, in a personal and private matter, is to strip them of their dignity and their humanity. Most importantly, she argues, we cannot respect the principles of freedom without acknowledging the freedom of reproductive choice.
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