All 37 Uses
abortion
in
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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- I gave you possibilities such as war, world hunger, abortion, the homeless, children's rights, spiritual beliefs, political ideologies, et cetera.†
Chpt 5 *abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- "A number of you have chosen abortion as your topic," Lemry says toward the end of class, studying a list in her hand.†
Chpt 8
- I'd be surprised if there weren't people in the room who have had experience with abortion, either directly or through friends.†
Chpt 8
- "Abortion," Lemry says, pacing the perimeter of the room.†
Chpt 8
- I know for a fact that Brittain and two others in the room—Sally Eaton and Cynthia Parrish—have picketed the clinic up at Deaconess Hospital where women in this town go for abortions.†
Chpt 8abortions = ending of pregnancies
- The hard fact about abortion is that it is murder.†
Chpt 8abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- The truth is, potential mothers and people who conspire with potential mothers to allow abortion will pay forever in the afterlife.†
Chpt 8
- You can't argue the question of abortion without including the laws of God.†
Chpt 8
- So just let it be understood that your belief says anyone who participates in abortion will be punished in the afterlife and let it go at that.†
Chpt 8
- "Abortion is not murder," she says.†
Chpt 8
- "Only among scholars who have a need for abortion to be okay," Sally says.†
Chpt 8
- Changing abortion law proves that.†
Chpt 8
- If you choose to have an abortion, you're a killer.†
Chpt 8
- Then he shouldn't even be in this argument, because he hasn't gone to the one place where the answers about abortion are.†
Chpt 8
- Certainly I'm for birth control before abortion, but I'll tell you one thing, Brittain, if God kept as close an eye on us as you say he does, and if he felt the need to intervene in daily human problems, he'd put on his steel-toed holy boots and come down here and kick your butt for making him look like a mean-spirited, unforgiving ayatollah.†
Chpt 8
- We started out talking about abortion, but the discussion quickly drifted to general beliefs.†
Chpt 8
- Even if they'd had abortions.†
Chpt 8abortions = ending of pregnancies
- I had an abortion.†
Chpt 9abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- Girls are forever asking me out for a burger so they can tell me about their abortions.†
Chpt 9abortions = ending of pregnancies
- I've known all along—in fact, since I had the abortion—that Mark and I weren't going to make it.†
Chpt 9abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- Then I didn't want to have the abortion.†
Chpt 9
- I should have stopped seeing him before the abortion, I really should have.†
Chpt 9
- When the class is discussing abortion, I can't sit back with no real opinion if I have a girlfriend who's had one.†
Chpt 9
- Before I knew it I was talking about the abortion.†
Chpt 11
- I also cried because you told me she had an abortion and there've been so many times in my life I wished that's what I had been.†
Chpt 11
- We're into the last installment of the abortion issue—Lemry gave it a few weeks' enforced rest to let people calm down—and Mark Brittain is well into the same old happy horseshit he uses to scold the world.†
Chpt 13
- I asked him about the church's stand on abortion, and he told me that what he had to say to the world was more important than one error in judgment.†
Chpt 13
- I had the abortion.†
Chpt 13
- I had to cross lines I'd marched in to have an abortion alone.†
Chpt 13
- Sally Eaton, the girl who pickets the abortion clinicat Deaconess regularly and who thinks Mark Brittain is the cleverest thing since remote control, raised her hand.†
Chpt 14
- Brittain did what he did at the abortion clinic, and trying to take himself out on drugs doesn't buy him any sympathy from me in that regard.†
Chpt 14
- About the abortion and all.†
Chpt 17
- How do I say I sent Jody to get an abortion by herself when I knew how scared and confused she was?†
Chpt 18
- Jody got an abortion just like she said.†
Chpt 19
- I was too scared to face what I'd done and too ready to protect myself, so I let her go up to the clinic alone and get an abortion alone and go home alone.†
Chpt 19
- On one of Jody's good days, I couldn't have done that, but after her abortion she didn't have any good days.†
Chpt 19
- I don't know what this does to my feelings about abortion or about God or about myself, but I'm going to find out.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(abortion as in: have an abortion) intentional ending of pregnancy with medical assistance by removing the fetus or embryo from the body before it is able to surviveA spontaneous abortion (more commonly called a miscarriage) is an abortion that happens without medical assistance or intent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)