This essay investigates the politics of motherhood in Breeder by extension the third wave's thinking on reproductive rights and motherhood. While Breeder recounts the experiences of young women carrying on the feminist struggle for reproductive rights and childcare, it also reveals the third wave's problematic celebration of 'choice.' Breeder's mission falters when compared with Sapphire's novel PUSH (1996), a feminist work of fiction about an African American teenage mother with two children living in Harlem. Sapphire's novel conjures the genealogy of the term 'breeder' as a racist label for black mothers from slavery through welfare reform.