Constance read and liked Angela's review of Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict:

"I'm not sure what to say about this book.
I got it because I was curious, and I thought I would learn some kind of important truth about human nature by reading it. I thought there had to be something dark and mysterious that would make someone...more I'm not sure what to say about this book.
I got it because I was curious, and I thought I would learn some kind of important truth about human nature by reading it. I thought there had to be something dark and mysterious that would make someone live like that.
I should have known better.
The thing that strikes me most about the story is how banal it is. It's utterly believable. You can see it happening.
Was she using abortion as a form of birth control? That's the criticism that a lot of people are going to give: abortion is a sacred right, a painful decision not to be abused. She could have taken the pill and she had abortions instead because she was too lazy. I don't think that's it, though. She wasn't functioning at a level that would have allowed her to be so coherent about what she was doing.
I'm also not sure that she was "addicted" to abortion. I think she was addicted to the horrible man she was with; and I think she wanted children and so she got pregnant, and then didn't want to lose him, so she had abortions. And I think that after doing that 12 times, she started to feel like she couldn't carry a child to term. If it was even that coherent.
I think the truth of the matter is that she was deeply troubled and deeply confused and too wrapped up in her own pain and her own bad relationship to really comprehend what she was doing. I'm not saying that that excuses it. I do think, though, that if the stories of most abortions were told, they'd be more similar to hers -- both in terms of the reasons behind them and in terms of the scars they leave behind -- than many would like to admit.(less) "