Ken Kesey said: "You are you from conception, and that never changes no matter what physical changes your body takes. And the virile sport in the Mustang driving to work with his muscular forearm tanned and ready for a day's labor has not one microgram more right to his inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than has the three month's fetus riding in a sack of water or the vegetable rotting for twenty years in a gurney bed. Who's to know the values or extent of another's trip? How can we assume that the world through the windshield of that Mustang is any more rich or holy or even sane than the world before those pale blue eyes? How can abortion be anything but fascism again, back as a fad in a new intellectual garb with a new, and more helpless, victim?"

“An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey” by Paul Krassner, The Realist, Issue 90, May-June 1971 — Read more at: http://baylyblog.com/blog/2012/10/ken-kesey-and-his-wife-agree-richard-mourdock-abortion-case-rape