As a child, Leah was given a $20 gold piece from handsome Wesley Stanford and vows to marry him in the future. When she grows up and is ready to marry, she finds that he is engaged to someone else.

A couple are haunted by the ghost of their aborted child who appears to them as a lovely girl in her teens. It happens to Christopher and Angela who are rekindling an old romance. Seventeen years earlier they had an affair, she aborted and they parted.

Follows the lives of Jill, a woman whose passionate friendships with other women are her emotional lifeline, and Donna, Jill's flirtatious cousin and closest friend, determined to attach herself to a man for her identity. Set in the 1950s.

"Mom at sixteen": A pregnant 16-year-old Jacey has a well-meaning mother who forces Jacey to keep the birth of her baby a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own. Donna Cooper is a school guidance counselor who discovers Jacey's secret and tries to get her to enroll in a program for pregnant and parenting teens. "Too young to be a dad": When 15-year-old honor student, Matt Freeman, gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant her family decides...

"Deciding whether or not to terminate a pregnancy -- wanted, unwanted, or unexpected -- can be a very difficult decision. Choosing to have an abortion is a very personal decision, and only You can be the person to make that decision for yourself. You can talk to your doctor or close friends/family about what you could do, but you should not feel coerced into any option. Understand abortion laws and procedures by doing your own research, and reflecting...

"This book narrates the harrowing and life-changing experiences of former abortion clinic workers, including those of the author, who once directed abortion services at a large Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas. These individuals, whose names have been changed to protect their identities, left their jobs in the abortion industry after experiencing a change of heart. They have come forward with their stories, not for fame or notoriety, but to shed...

One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of stigma and hostility has stifled women's willingness to talk about abortion, which in turn distorts public and political...