Katie hits another one out of the park. It's easy to see why she's a professional. Her latest essay, covering abortion, cuts through the sloganeering and hypocrisy of both camps, and deals in a very honest and open way with what really matters.
Suddenly, I, a person with all her grandparents still alive, a person who had never even been to a funeral, was faced with death. Not only was I faced with death in the abstract, I was faced with The Decision. In consultation with my with my sweet, 26 year old husband, a man similarly unschooled in the ways of mortality, I was charged with handing down a judgment as to whether Peanut would continue to leap and hop about in my womb and ultimately, be born alive. With a somber face, the doctor uttered the words that were to become so familiar to us over the next weeks, "Now, no one can make this decision for you. Only you can decide."
What a choice to have to make.....
Posted by Rich at June 12, 2002 3:24 AM