Bitter Fruit: Women's Experiences of Unplanned Pregnancy, Abortion, and Adoption

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Rita Townsend, Ann Perkins
Hunter House, 1992 - Abortion - 286 pages
A collection of stories told by women who have an unwanted pregnancy and how they have arrived at the decision to either carry the pregnancy to full-term, keep or give the child up for adoption, or decide to have an abortion early in the pregnancy.

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Contents

Introduction
8
You give up an awful lot
27
saw it on the ultrasound I couldnt do
38
Copyright

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Rita Townsend,Ann Perkins
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TitleBitter Fruit: Women's Experiences of Unplanned Pregnancy, Abortion, and Adoption
EditorsRita Townsend, Ann Perkins
Editionillustrated
PublisherHunter House, 1992
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedNov 5, 2008
ISBN0897931076, 9780897931076
Length286 pages
  
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