Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Now she pulls on blue jeans, a sports shirt, and ties her curly hair back with a scarf. She wears a tiny teardrop ring to show that she is engaged, but her fiance is not making this trip. Stacy and her mother set out on the 45-minute subway ride from their home to the Eastern Women's Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they have spoken little about the abortion...
...instant coffee, tries to brew a cup. His long-haired girlfriend sits motionless near by, her face blank. ABORTION CAN BE LONELY, reads a wall poster. From a loudspeaker comes the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. At intervals a small child cries out for his mother...
...first trip to the clinic a nurse "started lecturing me on how much it costs to raise a baby," Stacy recalls. "She sounded just like a mother." This time there are no long discussions. Stacy is called in for "the procedure," during which "the tissue" will be removed. Most women choose to be put to sleep with an intravenous injection of Brevital. "They have your legs just like you're going to have a baby," says Stacy...
...moaning. Stacy wants to get out quickly: "I can't listen to that." To bring up her blood-sugar level, a staffer gives her a cup of ginger ale, some Lorna Boone cookies and a Tylenol painkiller. They make her feel nauseated again. But soon Stacy and her mother are back on the street. The fresh air revives her. "I feel light," she says, "so good...
Stacy does not want to marry and leave home, "not till I'm older like my mother." And she does not want to repeat this day's sad experience. "I won't get any more abortions," she says. But now that it is over, she and her mother are off to Alexander's department store for a shopping spree. They try to forget the day by buying new shoes and a raincoat...