“Even if the experience is difficult, making the decision and going through an abortion can bring a time of change and growth.… It may create a new sense of self, a new identity as a woman, as a woman capable of handling the crisis and able to take charge of her life …
Choosing to have an abortion is, in a most fundamental sense, a way of having control over one’s life. Grasping even this bit of power over one’s destiny can strengthen the woman…
Abortion can be an act of personal courage… It is choosing to seek our greatest happiness; it means having the freedom to explore who we really are, who we truly want to be, to have the chance to push the limits of our potential. Pursuing happiness is not a selfish action; it is an act of love.”
Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 21 – 22
