Why me? I hadn't known her long and I didn't want to go with her.
Whatever it was I said - and I think it was more about infection (my mother was BIG on disease!) - talked her out of it.
She married the father and a couple of years later, I met their little tyke, a happy toddler. Quite a feeling, seeing this child and remembering how close it came to never being.
A good story. The friend I took became so overwhelmed with guilt about the abortion that she got pregnant by the same guy right away and kept the baby. She dropped out of college and I haven't heard about her since.
"Quite a feeling, seeing this child and remembering how close it came to never being."
Along these lines of thinking how some1 would never be....because of abortion....
Once ca. 1920 a woman with 2 children was pregnant and thought she couldn't deal w/another child, it was too costly, etc. She and her movie-house vaudevillian husband went to get 1 of those (illegal) abortions....and a family friend knew about it and bottom line, talked them out of it.
Their 3rd girl was born later, named Frances Gumm.
She would later be renamed during her childhood vaudeville years with her sisters as Judy Garland.