Why I Decided to Have a Second-Trimester Abortion

This life-altering decision was mine to make

Susannah Taylor
Human Parts
Published in
13 min readNov 20, 2019

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II lay still during the cab ride home from the hospital, feeling every turn and bump as if the car were navigating the inside of my body. My legs were at an angle, and the side of my face was pressed against the cool glass of the window. A couple of hours earlier, a doctor had given me a pill to relax me…

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