“It was naïve of me to believe that the ideology Esperanza expressed in class during our debates would carry over into real life. That I would even think to intervene in a family, especially between a mother and daughter, and about a topic as sensitive as abortion, was presumptuous—maybe even unethical.”
The Homemade Abortion: A Caged Bird, a Quinceaneara, and the American Dream
Florina Rodov | Electric Literature | May 3, 2016 | 3,388 words
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