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| Georgia Tech University, March 13, 2013 |
In excerpting Verlyn Klinkenborg's view in this way, we were attempting to preserve his sentiment,* but with our formatting of the text and the removal of the I's, we were attempting to comment on that sentiment.
What is missing? The I is missing. And the question with abortion is, "What is missing after an abortion?" Is the unborn something a lot like myself ("I") or is the unborn something very different?
What do you think?
*Here's the full quotation:
"In that instant, I felt a profound and unmistakable kinship with the shape implied by the foot and hand in the tray, a kinship so strong that it was like the rolling of the sea under my feet. I felt deeply unsettled, not by the sight of blood or tissue or by Diane’s matter-of-factness, which was quite gentle, but by the act of recognition. I was surprised by my own sadness, by the sense of loss I felt. Strangely, I couldn't tell what I was sad for, but I suspect that I was sad for myself, pathetic as that sounds, as though I were somehow looking at a homuncular version of myself scattered in that basin." -- Verlyn Klinkenborg
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