Illuminating the gray area between the anti-abortion and pro-choice stances

Review by Erika Schickel in the Los Angeles Times:

Bener and Gramont have assembled a collection of essays from women writers that is “dedicated to bringing nuance, compassion and understanding to an issue that has been reduced to bumper-sticker sloganeering and knee-jerk over-simplification,” Schickel says.

Included among the essays are accounts by women who received prenatal diagnoses that caused them to consider terminating their pregnancies. One does; one does not.

Kate Maloy describes her heartbreak over the late-term abortion of her severely abnormal fetus. “[M]y thoughts about abortion, conceived so long before my child was, did not save me from having to make the decision anew, in the midst of awful pain. . . . I had to decide one way or another and could not consult her. It was not an arrogant but an agonizing choice; not the right thing to do but, to me, the less wrong.”

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