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Mary Vannucci turns to intergenerational relationships between women both in their presence and their absence. Vannucci states that the most fundamental feminine attribute is the potential for reproduction and that a woman's most basic right should be the choice to use it or not. Vannucci equally reveres women for their choice to have children or their choice to abort a pregnancy. She cites that although it is difficult for any woman who cannot or chooses not to have a child the choice is entirely her own. In the bottom third of the Altar of Abortion a Marian figure seems to be holding a small bundle like a child creating a pieta vignette. An equal suggestion of the sorrow of a lost life and the sanctity of women's rights.