A pro-choice author who interviewed numerous postabortion women for a book she was writing describes one woman’s situation:
“Mary was quite emotional when she recounted her story and, at times, had tears in her eyes. Even with the passage of more than twenty years, the experience remains raw and she continues to feel grief about the abortion—an event that she likened to “losing a family member.”
Mary was married, and the mother of one child, when she had her abortion. She and her husband made the decision that they could not afford a second child. They were just beginning to attain financial independence when she became pregnant, and another baby would have set them back.”
Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 62
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