This critique leaves aside Wallis' discussion of abortion, where he repeatedly and unsettlingly characterizes women seeking abortions with the locution, "desperate women backed into difficult and dangerous corners," thereby portraying women as the passive objects of menacing actions by unseen, unnamed assailants or forces but never as adult moral agents capable of making moral choices and enacting their own moral values. How is it that adult women are moral agents only when they are not pregnant?