Hybrid Mom has published another personal essay of mine - 'What Could Have Been' - a memoir from the early days of legalized abortion in the United States.  800 words helps to hone and guide my essay.  What I leave out: my mother told me that my grandmother had thirteen 'procedures', decades before abortion was safe and legal.  My grandmother took my mother and my aunt for a jaunt to NYC, to a nice lady doctor.  The doctor showed my grandmother Rose how to make a tampon-like plug to prevent pregnancy; my grandfather found it, pulled it out and beat up my grandmother. 

http://www.hybridmom.com/articles/family-parenting/pregnancy/what-could-...