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Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?
She wondered if the only way any of us can find what we stand for is by first locating what we stand against.
she had gotten what she wanted, but she also felt the pain of loss, and they were not mutually exclusive.
Given how hard it was for her to get a legal abortion, why should she be punished for having an illegal one?
“All that legal protection you want for the unborn,” Joy said. “Great. Give it to them. But only if you can find a way to not take it away from me.”
this woman who was anti-contraception was also anti-abortion. Wasn’t that counterintuitive? If you didn’t want abortions, shouldn’t you at least be throwing free condoms and birth control pills out to anyone who would take them?
Perhaps the question wasn’t When does a fetus become a person? but When does a woman stop being one?
