There are so many well-stated opinions in this blog and the longer New Yorker article that is linked. The topic of legalized abortion is one we often think of as a modern one. This is about a time when it was not an option and affords us an opportunity to consider both lives that are at stake––both the foetus and the mother.
Sometimes I come across an article or a story that doesn’t leave me alone. People I don’t know -and never will know- are all of a sudden on my mind for days.
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lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Thoughtful. There are as you stated two lives directly involved in this event. And as the story, all of it through the extended family over time, evolves it becomes clear that life is never quite as simple as we would sometimes like it to be. Thank you.
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Thanks, John. There is another touchingly sad story in the comments as well. All those things our grandmothers and mothers never talked about. How lonely they must have been in their pain and sadness, if they were lucky enough to live through the experience.
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My grandmother had 2 small sons, was pregnant and her husband was leaving her for another woman. She tried to self abort the third pregnancy, but it did not work. The child was born with one leg shorter than the other and then she thought all her life it was her fault. I am sure many people do not know the stories of their grandmothers. At least she did not die like poor woman in this article.
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Heartbreaking.
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