title: Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion
author:  Karen E. Bender 
description: Karen E. Bender is the author of the novel <i>Like Normal People</i>. Her fiction has appeared magazines including <i>The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Story, The Harvard Review</i>, and has been anthologized in <i>Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories</i> and twice in the Pushcart Prize series. Her stories have been read on the <i>Selected Shorts </i>program on NPR and she has received grants from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and at the Antioch LA MFA program. She is finishing a new novel and collection of stories.
zlib_text: LIMS 
  5 
  Exploited by Choice 
  by 
  
  LIME 5: Exploited by Choice 
  Published by 
  Life Dynamics, Incorporated 
  P.O. Box 2226 
  Denton, Texas 76202 
  Phone (817) 380-8800 
  Fax (817) 380-8700 
  ©1996, Life Dynamics, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be 
  reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any 
  means, except in the case of brief quotations printed in articles or reviews, 
  without prior permission in writing from the publisher. 
  Printed in the United States of America. 
  ISBN 0-9648886-0-2 
  Library of Congress Catalog No.: 95-82088 
  Current events—non-fiction; abortion. 
  Design and typesetting by: 
  Genesis Publications 
  Bartlesville, Oklahoma 
  Cover design by: 
  Fiegenschue Design 
  Irving, Texas 
  Printed by: 
  Printing Center Media, Incorporated 
  Fort Worth, Texas 
  
  To Jackie 
  
  Contents 
  Acknowledgments. 7 
  Introduction. 9 
  (j H fl P1E (1 1 Safe and Legal.11 
  A sobering look at the price American women have been 
  forced to pay for “the right to