On page 355 of her essay, “Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights,” Angela Davis writes: “During the early abortion rights campaign it was too frequently assumed that legal abortions provided a viable alternative to the myriad problems posed by poverty. As if having fewer children could create more jobs, higher wages, better schools, etc., etc. This assumption reflected the tendency to blur the distinction between abortion rights and the general advocacy of abortions.
” Describe the assumption Davis is referring to here in your own words and explain how that assumption reflect a “tendency to blur the distinction between abortion rights and the general advocacy of abortions.”
