A Spark of Light

by Jodi Picoult

Whether or not you believed a fetus was a human being, there was no question in anyone’s mind that a grown woman was one. Even if you placed moral value on that fetus, you couldn’t give it rights unless they were stripped away from the woman carrying it. Perhaps the question wasn’t When does a fetus become a person? but When does a woman stop being one?

Bex, who had not terminated her pregnancy, had still lost a potential life that day—her own.