MOTHERS ' DREAMS : ABORTION AND THE HIGH PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD Joan

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, pro-choice and anti-abortion activists battled over the sacred ground of motherhood. Signs wielded by protestors outside clinics often read, "Choose life-your mother did," while bumper-stickers on the pro-choice side struggled to fight fire with fire with the slogan, "Pro-Child, Pro-Family, Pro-Choice." Yet, in recent years, the mother-oriented pro-choice slogan seems in short supply. Choice rhetoric of the past decade has returned to focus more on women's individual rights to privacy, autonomous control of sexuality, and bodily integrity/avoidance of forced pregnancy. In response to the increasingly gruesome photographs of fetuses from the anti-abortion side, pro-choice activists produced posters depicting the often terrible conditions for women needing abortions in the pre-Roe era, such as the striking set of ads by the New York Citybased Pro-Choice Public Education Project.' In the face of the most systematic attacks of the past thirty years on women's reproductive freedom by both the Bush administration and Congress, such reminders are crucial. At the same time, we must use all of the tools at our disposal, and not limit ourselves to arguments based on women's individual privacy rights. Drawing on material from the growing literature on care work,2 this Article argues that we need to add a new arrow to the quiver of abortion rights advocacy. In addition to the important individualistic claims of privacy, freedom of choice, and consent/bodily integrity,3