Aline. who is 27, describes what her boyfriend did when she told him she was pregnant:
“I just said that my period was late and he said that I had him up against the wall, and he left without a word; we’d been together for six years and a few times we even talked about getting married.”
She had an abortion.
Luc Boltanski The Foetal Condition: A Sociology of Engendering and Abortion (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013) 93
