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not a big deal at all. He even states that it really isn’t even an operation. The boyfriend keeps insisting that they will be happy after it is done and that the baby is making them unhappy. He states, “That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.” (Hemingway 924) He was referring to the baby. The girl questions him asking if he thinks they will be happy afterward to which his reply is “I know we will.” (Hemingway 925) The girl is clearly torn on what to do, but the man has his mind made up that he does not want the baby or care about it. He does not even understand that when she

The two tug back and forth for the baby, and in the end the two both yank at the baby closing the story with, “In this manner, the issue was decided,” (Carver 2). This leaves the reader up in the air on what happened, the reader is

Perhaps his most crudest and most aggressive comment comes when he hints that to take the edge off his desire he’d have to leave her ‘groaning’ in pregnancy and childbirth.

The couple had an immense argument about the unborn child. She asked the question of love saying “Do you love me?”. There was a long hesitation, a pause you could have poured all the affirmation of the world into.” Yes,” he said finally, his voice so soft and reluctant it was like the last gasp of a dying old man”. The fact Jeremy hesitated signifies his love for china is in the merge of failing. On the day of her delivery she called Jeremy and he immediately took her to a motel. In a blink of an eye she gave a painful birth but China kept telling Jeremy to “get rid of it” by refusing to assign gender to the new born

The family G.P accepted Connelly’s lies that Baby P’s bruised easily when he examined the baby at six months. In the final days of baby P’s life a G.P said he was in a ‘sorry state’ but did not alert others, decides she cannot carry out a full check-up as the boy is ‘miserable and cranky’. A post-mortem examination later reveals Peter had probably already suffered a broken back and fracture ribs by this point.

want. “She caught the baby around the wrist and leaned back, he felt the baby slipping

Along with every story, there are two sides that can be debated upon. The husband and wife who had a three-year-old child were

Many differences of opinion arise in regards to abortion, including the obvious “pro-life or pro-choice” question many people have defiant answers to. Abortion is a topic that most every person has a very strong, firm stance on, resulting in a worldwide debate of the matter. Differences of opinion persist within both movements. “Some pro-life activists may condone abortions in cases of rape or incest, while others take an uncompromising stance, believing that all abortion is murder” (“Abortion”). Most pro-life thinkers state that it is inhumane and immoral to abort a fetus under any circumstance, yet it is very important that the woman has the right to make her own decision based on her situation. If a woman needs to have an abortion, she

The ending of the story is rather ambiguous as it is not completely obvious what decision the two end up making. The man could have talked the girl into undergoing the procedure, or not. At one point toward the end, Jig tells him to “please please please please please please please stop talking”, and when he doesn’t she threatens to scream. This probably means that she had made up her mind, but it could be in either direction. In the end, she smiles at him, and he asks her if she feels better; she says that she feels fine. That could mean that she had made peace with the decision to abort their child or that she was proud of herself for finally standing up to him and making her choice not to abort final. Either way, making this choice is harder on her as she would be the one to undergo the operation, and she very well knows that he most likely will not stay with her if she decides to keep the child. No matter what she chooses, however, their relationship will never be the same.

"Sire if I do say so myself, giving birth is no walk in the park. Though she shouldn't be feel..." But before the midwife could say anything the evil man broke her neck.

The man, however, is not the sole contributor to the communication breakdown. Right away the girl begins to show her weakness and inability to express herself. When the man initially directs the conversation to the operation (abortion), her reaction is described: "The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on [and] . . . did not say anything" (275). Failure to state her conviction is illustrated in this example, and is further indicated by frail hints of her desire to keep the baby: "Once they take it away, you never get it back" (276). An obvious hint, yet she never clearly voices her hunger to have the baby. She continues to desire his will over hers in lines such as this one: "Then I?ll do it [have an abortion]. Because I don?t care about me" (275).

Finally, the story reveals that the couple is unable to think rationally and to take responsibility for their decisions at this young age. China and Jeremy decide to kill their newborn baby. She says, “Get rid of it. Just get rid of it” (144) and Jeremy even without hesitation wraps the baby in plastic and throws it in the dumpster. He believes that “there was no baby. There was nothing but a mistake…” (149). The fact that Jeremy does not see the baby as a human being, rather as a mistake, that he can throw away like garbage suggests that he is unable to think rationally about the situation. China tries to justify herself and testify against Jeremy by saying that “she never saw the baby” (150) and “she thought she had a miscarriage” (150).

between her mind and her heart. Her mind is telling her to keep the baby, but

man mentions Jig having an abortion, but always refers to the surgery as it, such as “it’s an

Another assertion made by abortionfact.com is pregnancy is not a horrid, undignified and devastating situation. A women can continue to go to school, work and choose a life style, within reason, while pregnant. Together with medical science and the past experiences of women the depressing and perverse depiction of pregnancy can be said to be a falsehood. On the other had Thomson makes the assertion, using the same analogy as before, that a women is immobilized by the