“…I was pregnant, I didn’t want to be pregnant, and I wanted to end the pregnancy as soon as possible.  I had great clarity on that.  It was a moment in the tortured history of abortion when abortion was safe, legal, and, at least where I lived, fairly uncontroversial.  Imagine.  You do need to imagine because that moment didn’t last long. …When I was in college abortion was illegal.  I had heard the stories from friends about their illegal abortions. Some had gone well, discreetly done in a swanky doctor’s office.  Others done in shame and secrecy and risk with some women not surviving the ordeal intact.  A friend who loved children and longed to have them was made sterile from her back street abortion.  I feel sure that loss has been with her all these years.  It never goes away. My abortion, which happened less than a decade later, was a trip to a clinic, an out-patient procedure, and a taking it easy for the rest of the day.  My partner came with me to the clinic, drove me home, ...