When You Erase Their Choice, You Erase That Person

Recorded:
Sep 2023
Speaker
Dr. Dawn Bingham
Duration
00:00:46
AUDIO CLIP
TRANSCRIPT

Dr. Dawn Bingham: Choice is really essential, choice is really essential. When you take away that choice for women and try to do some other level of societal good that people in power have decided is better for all of society for you to do X, Y, or Z, you erase that person, you diminish them. You erase them. I’m watching that effect now on women who are making decisions under duress, whereas otherwise they would have taken time to decide ‘I might want to have another child.’ I’m seeing people make decisions under duress, and thinking I can never be put in that position. I can’t.

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