The Homemade Abortion: A Caged Bird, a Quinceaneara, and the American Dream

“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.”

Published: May 3, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,388 words)
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