“I think abortion’s too clean a name for it,” Peter Goldsmith said. His lips moved slowly over each word, as if they pained him. “I think it’s infanticide, pure and simple. I’m sorry to say so, to be so … inflexible, set, whatever it is I’m being … about something which you now have to consider, if only because the law says you may consider it. I told you I was an old man.”
