Stolen from Betty Duffy, Who Stole It From Pentimento

The pain of her choice -- a choice that was clearly coerced every step of the way, as so very many abortions are -- is only underscored by the fact that, in her circles, there are few, if any, socially-sanctioned ways to speak about the suffering and regret of abortion without facing scorn.

 This is a sad, beautiful post about the gilded idea of "choice" and how it is, in actuality, anything but.

How infinitely tragic that the word choice task force has so neutered these empowered women that they lack the language to articulate the deepest of feminine pains: the loss of one's child.