“A woman may feel utterly devastated by the thought of a child, a bit of herself, put out for adoption and never seen or heard from again. She may therefore want not merely that the child be detached from her, but more, that it die. Some opponents of abortion are inclined to regard this as beneath contempt- therefore showing insensitivity to what is surely a powerful source of despair.”
Moralist and abortion rights supporter Judith Jarvis Thompson in her essay “Abortion” from the book “Contemporary Issues in Bioethics” Tom Beauchamp and LeRoy Walters. 2003 p 209
