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Not my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn't tell a friend. . .
In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming…
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Books beget books, and we read some because we're inspired by others. That's what happened last summer when I went to hear Honor Moore talk about A Termination at an author event. It's the slender, powerful memoir--her fourth--about an abortion she had in 1969, when it was still illegal unless you could get a note from a psychiatrist, which Moore had the resources to do. At the time she was a graduate student at Yale. Her lover was a professor, and she didn't tell him or anyone else that she was going to have the procedure--in a hospital, no less--on…
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