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  • They rent beach houses in Cancun during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before the prom.†   (source)
  • I won't have an abortion.†   (source)
  • I think you should have an abortion.†   (source)
  • As with most bad poets, I was unaware of this fact, secure in my arrogance that the very act of creating gave some worth to the worthless abortions I was spawning.†   (source)
  • In the past, Mrs. Bradley had notes dropped in her bag suggesting group discussions on abortion, family violence, cheating—on boyfriends, girlfriends, on tests.†   (source)
  • He gave us the option of waiting over the weekend and returning on Monday for the procedure, which was the same as an abortion, with the fetus and placenta being vacuumed from the uterus.†   (source)
  • They're still cheaper than an abortion.†   (source)
  • Maybe she'll think it's some sort of abortion contraption!†   (source)
  • She made a few phone calls, found a Jewish doctor in Manhattan, and took me to his office, where I had an abortion.†   (source)
  • He would marry her only if she agreed to allow him to execute a simple abortion.†   (source)
  • 1 will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked nor suggest any such counsel, and in like manner I will not give to a woman the means to produce an abortion.†   (source)
  • Beyond simply knowing their tissues are being used in research, some tissue-rights activists believe donors should have the right to say, for example, that they don't want their tissues used for research on nuclear weapons, abortion, racial differences, intelligence, or anything else that might run contrary to their beliefs.†   (source)
  • He knew the student who had originally drafted this abortion they called SAPS.†   (source)
  • "The government will force you to have an abortion," one of my sisters-in-law replied.†   (source)
  • "An abortion, of course," she replied.†   (source)
  • What was the difference among women who had abortions; women who abandoned, neglected, or abused their kids; and women who waited until they were ready and loved their kids?†   (source)
  • I was performing a kind of self-abortion with those aspirin.†   (source)
  • When she wanted compensation, his lawyer got someone to try to convince her to have an abortion.†   (source)
  • An abortion is the only way to save your life.†   (source)
  • I gave you possibilities such as war, world hunger, abortion, the homeless, children's rights, spiritual beliefs, political ideologies, et cetera.†   (source)
  • Dina listens to conservative talk radio, belongs to a fundamentalist Christian church, and has a "Guns don't kill people—abortion clinics do" bumper sticker on her car.†   (source)
  • She did confirm that should I choose abortion, my parents would not have to know.†   (source)
  • Since the 1990s, the spread of ultrasound machines has allowed pregnant women to find out the sex of their fetuses—and then get abortions if they are female.†   (source)
  • She'd say, "My mother died," or "I need abortion"—whatever came into her head.†   (source)
  • She hated it when her two favorite stories came on at the same time; it was a pain to keep switching channels between Steve's murder trial and Jessica's secret abortion.†   (source)
  • As a nurse with a clipboard asked if she'd had any abortions before, Barbara nodded and then said nothing for a moment.†   (source)
  • So, what, I have to get an abortion?†   (source)
  • They went single file down the passageways, a nun at front and rear, and Edgar thought of all the infants in limbo, unbaptized, babies in the seminether, and the nonbabies of abortion, a cosmic cloud of slushed fetuses floating in the rings of Saturn, and babies born without immune systems, bubble children raised by computer, and babies born addicted—she saw them all the time, three-pound newborns with crack habits who resembled something out of peasant folklore.†   (source)
  • We both knew her to be violently opposed to abortions, and she would very likely order me to quit school.†   (source)
  • All she had wanted was an abortion.†   (source)
  • The beauty parlors were good for two, three abortions a week.†   (source)
  • She says she decides one thing one day and then changes her mind the next....It's a horrible decision either way, and she's only got weeks to decide if she's going to have an abortion.†   (source)
  • When I ran into him and his girlfriend, she bitterly informed me that she was doing well, considering that that morning she had had an abortion.†   (source)
  • I mean, both Beanie and I are hugely opposed to abortion (we even participated in a Right to Life parade once in middle school).†   (source)
  • It might be difficult to understand, but she wasn't being cold, simply practical, when she asked me to pay for the abortion.†   (source)
  • Can you handle an abortion?†   (source)
  • Unable to have a child due to a botched abortion when she was eighteen, she insisted they adopt.†   (source)
  • Minnie says she's going down to Florida to see a doctor her boyfriend knows and get herself an abortion.†   (source)
  • We read a lot, and we'd talk about everything from abortion rights to recipes.†   (source)
  • It was to raise everybody's standard of living and provide a roast of pork every Sunday for every man, woman, child and abortion in the People's State of Mexico.†   (source)
  • She obviously had something to say, so I wished she would just get on with it, because she wasn't going to intimidate me no matter how many rumors I had heard about her: drug dealing, illegal abortions, knife wielding.†   (source)
  • A man at Jaffna committed suicide by eating the neagala root....A concoction of the plumbago is given to produce abortion.†   (source)
  • They weren't able to have children—a botched abortion had left Erlene barren—but they had a wonderful life together for almost thirty years.†   (source)
  • We shouldn't have to pay for stuff we hate, and I don't want to pay for a health care program that endorses legalized abortions.†   (source)
  • Amy's father, a small man in a powder-blue jogging suit, spoke to him familiarly and even kindly, and her mother patted Denny's hand in a consoling way after he finally allowed that an abortion might be wiser.†   (source)
  • "Yes, of course, darling," Ira cried, and all the guilt of her efforts to have an abortion was in her voice.†   (source)
  • Stephen teaches that physical birth is a sacrament; many of the women are experienced midwives, and the Farm became so serious about childbirth that it put an ad in the New York Times: "Hey LADIES ....Don't have an abortion.†   (source)
  • You are an abortion.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: Abortion!†   (source)
  • In spite of this the girls usually chose abortion.†   (source)
  • She had an annulled high school marriage and an abortion behind her.†   (source)
  • They locked her up in the Kezhemsk jail for practicing abortion and making pills and powders of some sort.†   (source)
  • "Have an abortion," he says.†   (source)
  • It's Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen and had an abortion.†   (source)
  • She had an abortion, and Wennerström was pleased.†   (source)
  • So it must have been the abortion riots.†   (source)
  • Then he'd pack her off to some under-the-counter abortion farm, the way he did with Laura.†   (source)
  • No one ever said the word "abortion" out loud, or even "adoption."†   (source)
  • Anyway, it's not as if you need to have an abortion, or some such thing ...†   (source)
  • Kelly lived at a group home for Catholics, so abortion was never an option.†   (source)
  • The hard fact about abortion is that it is murder.†   (source)
  • They went on to call Earth a knocked-up gaseous alien needing an abortion.†   (source)
  • But there was no sense in bottling it "She was going to get an abortion."†   (source)
  • If a girl has had an abortion, for instance, that would rule her out.†   (source)
  • Graduation After my abortion I wrote to Tateh and said I didn't want to come back to Suffolk.†   (source)
  • I should be responsible and make sure Terry gets an abortion.†   (source)
  • But on that August day in 1935 I had not yet heard about abortions.†   (source)
  • If you choose to have an abortion, you're a killer.†   (source)
  • One in three women will experience an abortion sometime in her lifetime.†   (source)
  • She'd scheduled an abortion, only to forget to write the date and time on her calendar.†   (source)
  • None of that stuff about Peter and my abortion in New York.†   (source)
  • My husband's folks won't pay for no more abortions, and we're gettin' hard up for cash.†   (source)
  • I immediately felt defensive; I hoped no one in the room thought I was there to get an abortion.†   (source)
  • We started out talking about abortion, but the discussion quickly drifted to general beliefs.†   (source)
  • Then I didn't want to have the abortion.†   (source)
  • I've known all along—in fact, since I had the abortion—that Mark and I weren't going to make it.†   (source)
  • Jody got an abortion just like she said.†   (source)
  • "Only among scholars who have a need for abortion to be okay," Sally says.†   (source)
  • How do I say I sent Jody to get an abortion by herself when I knew how scared and confused she was?†   (source)
  • "Abortion," Lemry says, pacing the perimeter of the room.†   (source)
  • Before I knew it I was talking about the abortion.†   (source)
  • You can't argue the question of abortion without including the laws of God.†   (source)
  • I should have stopped seeing him before the abortion, I really should have.†   (source)
  • I had to cross lines I'd marched in to have an abortion alone.†   (source)
  • Girls are forever asking me out for a burger so they can tell me about their abortions.†   (source)
  • No abortion, no religion, and nothing about today's botched lockdown drill, okay?†   (source)
  • You know, I've had some abortions before we met and all," she said, feeling her stomach tighten.†   (source)
  • They made her the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit seeking to legalize abortion.†   (source)
  • I also knew the closest abortion clinic was more than a hundred miles away.†   (source)
  • I would never expect you to have an abortion.†   (source)
  • I wanted to shout, She's having an abortion, Mom!†   (source)
  • So I remind her that to kill herself was as bad as an abortion (actually worse!)†   (source)
  • And in poor countries, abortions are sometimes as lethal to the mother as to the fetus.†   (source)
  • And if she'd had an abortion, then ...I think I'm worrying about it almost as much as she is.†   (source)
  • Until 1966, Romania had had one of the most liberal abortion policies in the world.†   (source)
  • Abortion isn't anything now ...or is it?†   (source)
  • In short, since then, UNFPA has prevented nearly 10 million abortions in China.†   (source)
  • But I thought all Christians believed that abortion was wrong.†   (source)
  • The abortion ban stayed in effect until Ceausescu finally lost his grip on Romania.†   (source)
  • I heard Belinda had an abortion; I could never, ever, never do that!†   (source)
  • He's a good man who genuinely cared about Chinese women and was horrified by coerced abortions.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the mom decided to get an abortion.†   (source)
  • So she emphatically informed me she would not have an abortion—ever, no matter what!†   (source)
  • Roe, allowing legalized abortion throughout the United States.†   (source)
  • Have an abortion ...not have an abortion.†   (source)
  • That steel ring led to millions of unintended pregnancies and then to abortions.†   (source)
  • Beanie told me that Zach had really been pressuring her this week to get an abortion.†   (source)
  • Oh, horrors ...pain ...strain ...Mom ...Dad ...Lew's family ...school ...marriage ...abortion?†   (source)
  • If she decides she can't, she often chooses the abortion.†   (source)
  • Whether or not one feels so strongly about abortion, it remains a singularly charged issue.†   (source)
  • One factor to look for would be a correlation between each state's abortion rate and its crime rate.†   (source)
  • To be sure, the legalization of abortion in the United States had myriad consequences.†   (source)
  • Suddenly and without warning, Nicolae Ceausescu declared abortion illegal.†   (source)
  • Now, virtually overnight, abortion was forbidden.†   (source)
  • Within one year of the abortion ban, the Romanian birth rate had doubled.†   (source)
  • What else might we look for in the data to establish an abortion-crime link?†   (source)
  • In one important way, the Romanian abortion story is a reverse image of the American crime story.†   (source)
  • Abortion in the twentieth century was often dangerous and usually expensive.†   (source)
  • There are even more correlations, positive and negative, that shore up the abortion-crime link.†   (source)
  • But in Texas, as in all but a few states at that time, abortion was illegal.†   (source)
  • The United States, meanwhile, has had a different abortion history than Europe.†   (source)
  • Abortion was in fact the main form of birth control, with four abortions for every live birth.†   (source)
  • And it is far more than the number of homicides eliminated each year due to legalized abortion.†   (source)
  • Perhaps abortion and crime are merely correlated and not causal.†   (source)
  • The crime drop was, in the language of economists, an "unintended benefit" of legalized abortion.†   (source)
  • Years later she would renounce her allegiance to legalized abortion and become a pro-life activist.†   (source)
  • Indeed, there are plenty of people who consider abortion itself to be a violent crime.†   (source)
  • Fewer poor women, therefore, had abortions.†   (source)
  • Abortion was in fact the main form of birth control, with four abortions for every live birth.†   (source)
  • There are roughly 1.5 million abortions in the United States every year.†   (source)
  • Do you know what the law in this state has to say about abortion?†   (source)
  • Do you wish you'd gone ahead and had the abortion?†   (source)
  • And simultaneously from the left I heard, "Shoulders back, abortion.†   (source)
  • Why didn't you get an abortion when you realized you were pregnant?†   (source)
  • Even if you run away, they will track you down, force you to have an abortion, and you'll be penalized.†   (source)
  • A survey by the Barna Group showed that five and a half million people indicated that they had cause to rethink their position on abortion.†   (source)
  • I won't get an abortion and I won't divorce Nick, not yet, because I can still remember how he'd dive into the ocean on a summer day and stand on his hands, his legs flailing out of the water, and leap back up with the best seashell just for me, and I'd let my eyes get dazzled by the sun, and I'd shut them and see the colors blinking like raindrops on the inside of my eyelids as Nick kissed me with salty lips and I'd think, I am so lucky, this is my husband, this man will be the father of my children.†   (source)
  • Holmes denied that he and Julia had ever engaged each other physically, or that she had undergone "a criminal operation," a then-current euphemism for abortion.†   (source)
  • It looks like an abortion.†   (source)
  • We should have gotten an abortion.†   (source)
  • "I have an abortion scheduled for tomorrow morning at 9 A.M.," she cried, "and now I will not go through with it."†   (source)
  • It was no good calling on the C's to do abortion stuff, for instance; not that we'd done much of that lately.†   (source)
  • He cursed his invincible sentimentality and tried to see her as his brother's lover, a woman on whom he had just performed an abortion, but he immediately realized how impossible that was and surrendered to the pleasure and suffering of loving her.†   (source)
  • He hadn't wanted Josie born, so theoretically, he'd probably go out of his way to help her have an abortion.†   (source)
  • That abortion was some kinda good.†   (source)
  • They'd been in a march that day; it was during the time of the porn riots, or was it the abortion riots, they were close together.†   (source)
  • Some of the failure to reproduce can undoubtedly be traced to the widespread availability of birth control of various kinds, including abortion, in the immediate pre-Gilead period.†   (source)
  • Not that she'll choose an abortion, but that she'll experience one, as if it's something that passively happens to her.†   (source)
  • She had gone with a friend to a march at the statehouse in Concord and stood on the steps with a sisterhood of women who held up signs: I'M PRO-CHOICE AND I VOTE'AGAINST ABORTION?†   (source)
  • The Planned Parenthood literature was designed to make girls feel okay about getting abortions, by saying things like "Abortion is common.†   (source)
  • He was positive that I'd had an abortion and just made up the whole senior project as a way to cover it up.†   (source)
  • In their description of an abortion, Planned Parenthood explains, "Either a hand-held suction device or a suction machine gently empties your uterus."†   (source)
  • The Planned Parenthood literature was designed to make girls feel okay about getting abortions, by saying things like "Abortion is common.†   (source)
  • Fifteen to 20 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriages, and 45 percent of teens who get pregnant have abortions.†   (source)
  • I looked at the posters on the walls and read the literature around the tables and quickly caught on that this was, among other things, a place where girls went when they wanted to get abortions.†   (source)
  • Statistics like that are always to be viewed dubiously; it includes women who had to have abortions because their lives were in danger or because the baby had already died in the womb.†   (source)
  • I think it will teach me about how the environment can influence whether teen moms decide to keep their babies, have abortions, or give them up for adoption or foster care.†   (source)
  • Then he shouldn't even be in this argument, because he hasn't gone to the one place where the answers about abortion are.†   (source)
  • I'd be surprised if there weren't people in the room who have had experience with abortion, either directly or through friends.†   (source)
  • When the class is discussing abortion, I can't sit back with no real opinion if I have a girlfriend who's had one.†   (source)
  • The truth is, potential mothers and people who conspire with potential mothers to allow abortion will pay forever in the afterlife.†   (source)
  • "A number of you have chosen abortion as your topic," Lemry says toward the end of class, studying a list in her hand.†   (source)
  • Brittain did what he did at the abortion clinic, and trying to take himself out on drugs doesn't buy him any sympathy from me in that regard.†   (source)
  • So just let it be understood that your belief says anyone who participates in abortion will be punished in the afterlife and let it go at that.†   (source)
  • I don't know what this does to my feelings about abortion or about God or about myself, but I'm going to find out.†   (source)
  • I asked him about the church's stand on abortion, and he told me that what he had to say to the world was more important than one error in judgment.†   (source)
  • "Abortion is not murder," she says.†   (source)
  • I also cried because you told me she had an abortion and there've been so many times in my life I wished that's what I had been.†   (source)
  • On one of Jody's good days, I couldn't have done that, but after her abortion she didn't have any good days.†   (source)
  • Sally Eaton, the girl who pickets the abortion clinicat Deaconess regularly and who thinks Mark Brittain is the cleverest thing since remote control, raised her hand.†   (source)
  • Changing abortion law proves that.†   (source)
  • I was too scared to face what I'd done and too ready to protect myself, so I let her go up to the clinic alone and get an abortion alone and go home alone.†   (source)
  • About the abortion and all.†   (source)
  • We're into the last installment of the abortion issue—Lemry gave it a few weeks' enforced rest to let people calm down—and Mark Brittain is well into the same old happy horseshit he uses to scold the world.†   (source)
  • I had the abortion.†   (source)
  • Certainly I'm for birth control before abortion, but I'll tell you one thing, Brittain, if God kept as close an eye on us as you say he does, and if he felt the need to intervene in daily human problems, he'd put on his steel-toed holy boots and come down here and kick your butt for making him look like a mean-spirited, unforgiving ayatollah.†   (source)
  • I had an abortion.†   (source)
  • I know for a fact that Brittain and two others in the room—Sally Eaton and Cynthia Parrish—have picketed the clinic up at Deaconess Hospital where women in this town go for abortions.†   (source)
  • Even if they'd had abortions.†   (source)
  • I could never have an abortion.†   (source)
  • Was he-none of the daughters really believed this, but to contemplate it was a wonderful little explosion in their heads— was he maybe dealing drugs or doing abortions in his office?†   (source)
  • I see words on the front pages of newspapers that never used to be said out loud, much less printed—sexual intercourse, abortion, incest—and I want to hide their eyes, even though they are grown-up, or what passes for it.†   (source)
  • Bree considered abortion.†   (source)
  • She realized that to answer that would require that she uncurl that week of her life, pushed safely up into her head, when she had done all those terrible things for that other woman who had wanted an abortion.†   (source)
  • I'll have an abortion.†   (source)
  • "Where the devil is Ghosh?" he shouted, because Ghosh often pitched in to help Hema with abortions and tubal ligations, and, as a jack-of-all-trades, he had more experience with a women's reproductive anatomy than Stone.†   (source)
  • There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, nonproperty, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.†   (source)
  • You mean abortion.†   (source)
  • He was a tall man in a white smock, tall and stooped, with an odd pallor, and deeply introspective, I thought, six feet seven or eight, an American who did abortions, according to the people I'd talked to, out of a sense of duty and compassion, and he hadn't shaved today.†   (source)
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