Without Apology.

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  • Author(s): BONHOMME, EDNA (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Nation. 7/10/2023, Vol. 317 Issue 1, p32-34. 3p. 2 Color Photographs.
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    • Subject Terms:
      ABORTION laws; BLACK children; APOLOGIZING
    • Abstract:
      Like Imani, Walker had a young daughter and a lawyer husband, and she would also have two abortions in the years before Roe. FEATURES IN 1994, WHEN I WAS 10, MY MOST RELIABLE BABYSITTER - A HEXAGONAL TELE-vision set with two antennae - introduced me to the concept of abortion. Her first abortion was a clandestine procedure that cost a "thousand dollars, for which she would be in debt for years" and after which she hemorrhaged for weeks, while her second abortion was "seventy-five dollars…safe, quick, painless." Writing the abortion stories of working-class women with tenderness and exacting honesty, as Walker and Ernaux do, is essential to the reproductive rights movement. [Extracted from the article]
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