Abortion rights: privacy or autonomy?

Comment posted on New York Times online blog, in response to ”Code Name Jane: The Women Behind a Covert Abortion Network, October 15, 2018:

Once, the slogan of abortion rights liberals was that it is a "private" matter "between a woman and her doctor." Appealing to one professional authority to legitimate personal freedom from the government. Indeed, Roe v. Wade was framed as a privacy right. Misleadingly. Women were not protesting a law requiring that abortions be performed on a stage. The right is of self-determination, which is not the same thing as privacy. It doesn't involve choosing an assistant as supervisor; it involves the power to do something you do or do not want to do, with that as the decisive reason. That's why "Jane" had the right idea.  

Today the best idea is to end regulation of the purchase of medications like these, beyond perhaps quality checks of merchandise or production facilities. The superior power of Internet-based commerce to the ability of governments to regulate purchases may not universally be a means of liberation and empowerment. But here it is.  

Babies are the new: less consequence than addition; good but rarely necessary, as in tools for some purpose. (Like men's cloaking their authority in notions of the "spiritual" vital essence of their seminal contributions to births? Or churches' belief that the fetus is bearer of a right to be a life (that is in fact) enjoyed by someone else as an idea?)  

In fact, the abortion issue is really about controlling poor people's lives. But the cultivation of children is too precious for obedience. It must be freely willed.