Reardon's strategy based on rights still calls for critical examination. For in advancing women's rights as the key to the diminishment of the abortion plague, this strategy comes dangerously close to facilitating, at least philosophically, that which gives rise to abortion itself. Reardon's reason for employing the women's rights approach is based on his experience in debating the abortion issue. The suggestion of such a union should give pause to pro-life forces, and Christians particularly, for it is this pride and assertion of rights that is at the very heart of the abortion plague, and innumerable other ills as well. Feminism is a movement that seeks to give women the same rights and freedoms that men have in the political, social, domestic, and personal realm.
Contraception is thus a perennial banner issue for the feminist movement.
For contraception promises to go beyond mere political equality and impart to women the same biological, and hence social freedoms, that men enjoy. Nothing thwarts the feminist's idea of freedom, nor impairs the pursuit of profit or pleasure more, than being heavy with child, or having to care for a brood of children. Abortion, as the integral extension of contraception, is seen as the final solution to the unjust ways of God and nature. In seeking freedom from all dictates, be they imposed from without or ingrained within, the radical feminist must finally assault motherhood itself. Motherhood is viewed not as woman's eternal vocation, but rather her eternal bondage.