"If I knew them, would I miss them, would I mourn them? The question is absurd. With abortion, you never get to know what you are missing. That's part of the deal.
And that, leaving aside all our abstract notions and the tidy ideas about consciousness and otherness, is the private hell everyone involved in an abortion enters. Its not a hell you're in and then walk out of, but a hell you carry with you forever. There are no fire escapes."
Read the whole thing here: http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/abortion_in_ame.php#009265
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