Rickie Solinger

Fertility treatments give hundreds of thousands of infertile women the opportunity to become mothers, maintains Rickie Solinger in the following viewpoint. The fact that these women want to be mothers so badly that they will put up with the uncertainty, the pain, and the risks inherent in the procedures should be enough to keep the technology legal, she asserts. Solinger is the author of Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v.Wade, The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law, and Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle,1950–2000.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What are some of the ways that Solinger admits women can be exploited by reproductive technologies?
2. How are women in fertility programs similar to women who have abortions, in the author’s view?
3. What fertility issues cut to...