“The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.” FallDifficultPowerfulPositionCircumstancesCreaturesVictimEmbraceMythAssumptionAbortionDependentLife And DeathMost PowerfulTrustedPassivePrey Book:Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room Source: Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room