From one woman who had an abortion:
“Once I was committed to having an abortion, I almost couldn’t stand knowing a baby was growing inside me. My mother-in-law gave us the $500 cash we needed (she is an unequivocal pro-choice advocate).
I went through the time between making the appointment and the appointment itself like an automaton, doing everything exactly, thoughtlessly, numbed. I don’t believe I allowed myself to consider my own feelings about abortion until it was over.”
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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