One woman who had an abortion developed a strange obsession with the doctor who performed it. Even though she was not his patient and had never seen him before, she began to take him lunch and buy him gifts. Her actions seem driven by guilt.
“I transferred my medical records to the doctor who had done the abortion, sent him a huge waiting room plant, a tree, and began to bring him bag lunches and sit with him to eat. At the time I remember thinking I was ‘returning to the scene of the crime,’ though I am not sure whose crime it was; now I think I was reassuring myself that this person accepted me despite what I had made him an accomplice to.”
Helen Susan Edelman, “Safe to Talk: Abortion Narratives as a Rite of Return,” Journal of American Culture 19, no. 4 (1996)
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