Sell, Evelyn. Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights. New York, NY: F.I.T, 1991.
Evelyn Sell founded and served as a state officer for the Texas Abortion Coalition. She is currently a part of the NOW chapter in Los Angeles. Sell, a United Teachers Los Angeles member, and contributed to the formation of the union’s Human Rights Committee. She is a contributing editor of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency’s monthly newspaper, Bulletin in Defense of Marxism. Evelyn Sell explains the background and ongoing fight for abortion rights in the US in “Our Bodies! Our Choice!”. The book makes the case that reproductive rights are a crucial component of women’s autonomy and self-determination and emphasizes how abortion restrictions disproportionately harm marginalized communities, especially low-income women, and women of color. The book concludes by arguing that the fight for abortion rights should continue to be a crucial part of the larger campaign for reproductive justice. This book is useful towards my topic because it talks about the importance of women having control over their own bodies, and that they should have the choice whether they want an abortion or not.
- “Every aspect of a woman’s existence is affected by reproductive choices: her role in society, educational pursuits, job opportunities, physical and mental health, patterns of daily life, and personal relationships.” (Sell)
- “The Supreme Court stopped short of actually reversing the 1973 decision on Roe v. Wade but the justices have continued to chop away women’s reproductive rights — with especially disastrous results for poor women, low-paid female workers, youths, and women of color.” (Sell)
