Summary

Reproductive rights made progress in the 1960s with the advent of birth control, against the wishes of the Chilean establishment, but this did not obliterate the patriarchy. Even in the United States, female contraception and abortion remain in question. Having witnessed a traumatic one in her youth, Allende feels strongly that abortion must be an option for women everywhere. She is also in favor of free access to contraception and believes that the responsibility for reproductive issues should be shared without the control of one side over the other. For this to happen, religions and laws much change, and if not legalized, abortion must at least stop being criminalized. Allende believes that women must have control over their bodies as well as their lives. Domestic abuse, which she wrote about as a young journalist, is still widespread and though it is more reported...