Advocacy

There isn't any doubt that advocacy connects to reproduction rights. Without the advocacy of second wave feminists, women may still have to get their husband's permission to use birth control, and laws banning abortion may not have ever been challenged. Ever since Roe v. Wade was decided, women and their allies had to have major advocacy campaigns to blunt the assault by religious fanatics on their right to privacy, and their right to determine whether they should give birth or not.

I do expect to see change on my issue in my lifetime. I do believe that as more and more people get involved in the political process in an era where all they know is legalized abortion, there will be less resistance to a woman's right to choose.