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Commentary: Abortion

NPR
Published January 23, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Commentator Laura Novak describes her experience working at the neonatal intensive care unit of a California hospital, and how it has caused her to view abortion as a way to spare infants a painful life and long death from incurable diseases or birth defects.

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