Feminist Perspective On Abortion

To start off, the Feminist perspective is limited in explaining abortion because the “rights claims” (women rights) that feminists use to justify the act of abortion could be a satisfactory solution for inequality and injustice. The strategy of defending abortion of “the woman’s right to choose” comes under fire in two directions. First, the specific expression of the demand has enabled racist and historical policies concerned with population regulation, mainly concerning the US. “The major problem which has facilitated this form of appropriation lies with the meaning of the term ‘‘choice,’’ generally defined, both culturally and legally, as an aggregation of ideas of privacy and autonomy.” (Smith, 2002) The implicit meaning informing the