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To onlookers we could have seemed like a couple going on a trip as Carrie and I left the office, strolled over to her car and tossed her bag inside. It was cold, damp, and gloomy matching the mood for an abortion. There was no question in either of our minds that Carrie was making the agonizing right decision. Deep down she longed to be married with a family but she didn’t want to bring a child into the world this way: from a one-night stand, fathered by a hunk she didn’t know anything about. This modern Millie was steeped in traditional values, wanting to fall in love, marry, and raise a family in that order. Thankfully, she lived in a culture where abortion was legal, performed by experienced doctors where her ability to bear a child in the future was not jeopardized.
She smiled and
