Poor Baby: A Child of the 60's Looks Back on Abortion

Poor Baby: A Child of the 60's Looks Back on Abortion

I came of age during the â‚¬Ëœ60â‚¬s and â‚¬Ëœ70â‚¬s. Iâ‚¬m a former waitress, an ex-lawyer, a sober barfly, a Catholic convert, and a self-supporting writer. Iâ‚¬ve been financially independent all my life. But Iâ‚¬ve never much been able to reduce the mystical to the political. Iâ‚¬ve never been much moved to call myself a feminist. The feminists had said that sleeping around would be empowering. The feminists had maintained that â‚¬Å“choosingâ‚¬Â would make me free. The feminists had asserted that thereâ‚¬d be no repercussions. The feminists had been wrong. That Iâ‚¬m for lifeâ‚¬"and against abortion, war, the prison industry, capital punishment, and the destruction of all that is most precious in us and the people around usâ‚¬"is a given. That Iâ‚¬m for life is why I suffered, in silence, in guilt, in sorrow, for over twenty years. Even women, who will talk about anything, donâ‚¬t talk about abortion. But I do, in this 10,000-word essay that I hope might open the door to a new way of thinking about and talking about this difficult subject. Because abortion is not a political issue; abortion is a mystical issue. Abortion is a matter of emotional and spiritual poverty, of what we inherit from our parents and what we pass on to our children, of what we absorb from a culture that is saturated with violence. As Dostoevsky observed: â‚¬Å“Love in reality is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.â‚¬Â "Poor Baby" is the tragicomic story of a harsh and dreadful thing. May it shed some light on our collective yearning for love. NOTE: POOR BABY is a 54-page essay, not a full-length book.
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781479161751
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781479161751
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Poor Baby: A Child of the 60's Looks Back on Abortion

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