Germaine Greer, feminist author and advocate of legal abortion, essay Abortion, The Sunday Times, 21 May 1972.
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The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
— Abortion
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About Abortion
Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.
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