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Luker (1984, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood) writes:

... for pro-life women the traditional division of life into separate male roles and female roles still works, but for pro-choice women it does not. Having made a commitment to the traditional female roles of wife, mother, and homemaker, pro-life women are limited in those kinds of resources-education, class status, recent occupational experiences- they would need to compete in what has traditionally been a male sphere, namely the paid labour force. The average pro-choice woman, in contrast is comparatively well endowed in exactly these resources.

To what extent can we agree with his summary that whilst "on the surface it is the embryo's fate which seems to be at stake, the abortion debate is actually about the meaning of women's lives", with less educated women turning to their domestic and maternal roles for satisfaction?

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