Jig is reaching out for the normal life where she would not have to make this decision and the man is envious of all the peoples who go about living their lives without children and the burden that they bring. ... Later in the story there fields of grain and a river, which symbolizes the child and beyond the river are mountains, which suggest that if she keeps the child there will be difficulty between the couple. ...

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Finally, when the speaker proclaims "I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children," she tells the readers that she is being haunted by voices of her unborn children, thus expressing her pain and loss(lines 11-12). ... She might now see them as her unborn children. Later on in the stanza, the speaker once again changes her word usage when she now calls her children her "dears" and "sweets"(lines 13-14). ... In the first stanza she expresses those things that her unborn children will never be able to do. ... Upper Saddle River, Ne...

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Third, the types of woman having recourse to abortion seem to change; the dramatic surge of abortion in the U.S. after 1840 was attributed not to the increase in illegitimacy or a decline in marital fidelity, but rather to the increase use of abortion by white, married, Protestants, native born woman of the mid and upper class who either wished to delay their child bearing or already had all the children they wanted (46). ... The East River Medical Association of New York obtained an affidavit form the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1871 declaring that a single manufacturer had produced s...

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• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Third, the types of woman having recourse to abortion seem to change; the dramatic surge of abortion in the U.S. after 1840 was attributed not to the increase in illegitimacy or a decline in marital fidelity, but rather to the increase use of abortion by white, married, Protestants, native born woman of the mid and upper class who either wished to delay their child bearing or already had all the children they wanted (46). ... The East River Medical Association of New York obtained an affidavit form the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1871 declaring that a single manufacturer had produced s...

• Word Count: 3983
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Third, the types of woman having recourse to abortion seem to change; the dramatic surge of abortion in the U.S. after 1840 was attributed not to the increase in illegitimacy or a decline in marital fidelity, but rather to the increase use of abortion by white, married, Protestants, native born woman of the mid and upper class who either wished to delay their child bearing or already had all the children they wanted (46). ... The East River Medical Association of New York obtained an affidavit form the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1871 declaring that a single manufacturer had produced s...

• Word Count: 4259
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate