Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

An article in the Village Voice on 2nd trimester abortions, from 2002 :

The phenomenon of women traveling to far-away clinics actually has a
name: "abortion tourism." But usually the flow is from countries where
abortion is illegal, or close to it. Best known are the estimated 7000
Irish women who journey to England every year for the procedure.

You can read it here http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-07-02/news/emergency-landing/1

and the response I wrote to them:

ROUGH LANDING

As a woman who had an abortion in my fifth month of pregnancy I read with disdain Jennifer Block's article on second-trimester abortions ("Emergency Landing,"
July 9). In my personal experience, I was coaxed by someone to abort my
child. Contrary to the idea of free choice, I believe many women abort
because of outside pressures.

Block can call the founder of Haven Coalition
"the patron saint of abortion access," but many of us who had abortions
believe we were deceived and not properly prepared for the possible
physical, spiritual, and psychological consequences. As I interpret the
July 9 cover, Dorothy is living a nightmare in Oz—I think that sums up
abortion for a great number of women.

Theresa Bonopartis
New York