The Illusion of Roe V. Wade

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education issued guidelines in 1996 that encourage medical schools to include abortion techniques in their curriculums. It is not yet clear how much effect these guidelines will have, says Patricia Anderson, executive director of Medical Students for Choice.

The prospect of approval for drugs such as RU 486, which induces abortions, could make early term abortions much easier to obtain.

But these prospects don't cheer pro-choice women.
"I think that my generation of women -- we are the second generation of feminists -- I think we have really taken advantage of what our mothers have done. We are really complacent," says Jennifer Matthews, 29, a San Francisco professional who had difficulty obtaining an abortion last summer. "Our right to have an abortion is slowly eroding away.