I welcomed the New York piece, notwithstanding, because even when you’re trying to defend it, abortion always ends up sounding like what it is – the death of an innocent human being – and it’s hard to cover that up, even with the most selective editing. So it’s heart-wrenching to read the account of someone like Heather, a 32-year-old mother of two from Tennessee who says that she was “brought up with a very religious background.”
“I just had to shut my conscience down,” she recalls. “The doctor was grotesque. He whistled show tunes. I could hear the vacuum sucking out the fetus alongside his whistling. When I hear show tunes now, I shudder. Later, he lost his license.”
