Chapter 14
(Seattle, Washington, 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 30, 2013)
JANET’S COLUMN HAD appeared in the morning newspaper on the editorial page. It talked about how difficult and personal the decision to have a child or an abortion was for a woman. She compared that to the rhetoric of the anti-abortionists—people like Mark Ryan although she didn't name him—who talked about society and ethics and rights and wrongs. For most women, she pointed out, it was a personal decision, not a political one. She alluded to a couple of stories she'd written about in the series—women who had been r***d, or whose partner left when told of the pregnancy, of fetuses with profound defects. Women who made the choice to abort or to give birth based on what they thought was best.
“Sometimes there is no right
