Context can be lost when it comes to debating Eighth Amendment

My mother had me at 42 and I was only born because she was morally opposed to abortion, writes Victoria White.

MY FIRST encounter with abortion was when I was on a working holiday abroad and an older woman grabbed her stomach, winced and said, “I’m frightened I may be pregnant again.” Before I had a chance to reply, she added, “I’m not going to make this baby. If I make it, I die.”

She was speaking a foreign language, which is probably why I remember what she said so precisely — you don’t “make” a baby in English.