“The decision of a woman, or a couple, to have an abortion is not necessarily made because they dislike children, it is normally an expression of the fact that at this particular time in their life, they feel they cannot offer a child the love, security and physical support which would meet their ideals…Abortion is usually an altruistic decision.”
Malcolm Potts, Peter Diggory, and John Peel, Abortion (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1977) 227 – 228 Quoted in James Tunstead Burtechaell, C.S.C. Rachel Weeping: the Case against Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982)
