For a published piece or the press these women are bold and defiant.
But, it's not until you get them in a quiet place, as if you are having a fireside chat with them, that they reveal their true feelings --- the hurt and the pain.
They cry and it's from deep down in them. There is no play on emotion --- it's just the reality.
No doubt. I was commenting on the fact that the author massacred the sentence by using that atrocious, ambiguous clause about the woman who was having her fourth abortion. On first reading, one is caught in the ridiculous impression that the woman had had three previous abortions on that same day.
As for the old abortionist, her reward is assured and you and I know it won't happen in the bosom of Abraham.
I dunno, I find it hard to believe that any woman who feels the pain of abortion in her soul would have more than 1 death racked up.
And in this day and age of information I'm finding it hard to have sympathy for women who can still abort with all the pics of babys in the stages of development.