Unfolding Secrets: Jill Christman Reveals the Hidden Truths Behind The Heart Folds Early
We’ve been living so long inside a conversation that oversimplifies the language of abortion that I felt like whole areas of experience weren’t available to me. For example, could I think of my baby as a baby, could I call him “Baby Brother” and still choose to end his life in utero? Could I talk about our decision — mine and my husband’s, together, because we are a family? If I grieved my baby’s death, did that mean I regretted my choice? I wanted to crack open a space where I could tell the story of one baby in one woman’s body in one family at a specific time — and that was so hard.
