From one teenager who had an abortion:
“We didn’t tell my boyfriend’s parents because his sister-in-law had 13 abortions. His parents were going on and on about how you can’t mess with the spirit that many times. We knew they would support us but it was too hot an issue at the time.”
Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 38

