*Elizabeth's Story

My grandmother died back in the late 1940s because she could not have an abortion. Her fifth child kicked through her womb during delivery. Her doctor told her another pregnancy would kill her. Well, about 14 years later she got pregnant and died because they would not allow her to have an abortion.

Elizabeth

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Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places … I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.
-Sarah
*name changed to Elizabeth, January 1998