The Choice to Abort

The title of the article:

One Woman’s Choice:
After a Prenatal Test Shows Down Syndrome, A Wrenching Decision

“So when do you go for the abortion?” my friend asked, her voice sympathetic.

“Wednesday,” I replied, and then hurriedly got off the phone. I called Mike, my boyfriend, in tears, complaining about how inconsiderate people are, how no one thinks before they speak. The truth was, until I heard the word “abortion,” it hadn’t occurred to me that I was actually having one.

Later, one of my teammates suggested that I tell others I had a miscarriage.
“You never know how people will react,” he said.

My mother, too, was a proponent of the miscarriage story. She told two of my brothers the truth; she told the third that I’d suddenly lost the baby. That brother’s wife was a Catholic, and my mother was taking no chances.
“People are funny,” she said.

I’ve heard the abortion debate my whole life, and while I was a newspaper reporter I had covered stories about clinic bombings and protests. I interviewed Randall Terry of Operation Rescue when I was in my twenties …

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