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The book is largely a collection of pseudonymous interviews. Denes, a psychologist who once had an abortion, has explored the motives that brought other women to the hospital (also unidentified) where she had her operation performed. The interviews are interspersed with Denes's comments and descriptions, which serve to clarify...
Perhaps the simplest thing that can be said about the decision to go through an abortion is that conflicts are inevitable and are rarely fully resolved. This much comes across clearly in Denes's book. Many of the women she interviewed turned to the hospital only after having made lasting...
Denes also probes the reasons for the staff's dedication to its work at the clinic. Members of the medical profession are stringently trained to help preserve life, often at any cost. But this institution specializes in taking life. Abortion is a lucrative practice, and the income to be gained...
Although Denes favors legalized abortion, In Necessity and Sorrow provides a tacit indictment of the practice. The material gathered inclucates in the reader the distressing impression that abortion by any other name would be murder. Yet, on a more intellectual level, it stands as a defense of the right of...
The very fact that so many people are eager to talk about their innermost feelings with a total stranger for the purpose of publication points up one of society's shortcomings: no one listens. Denes is at least willing to do this much.