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would grow unaware of the implications. By personalizing it, | had to accept my own responsibility for each fetus whose potential | was helping to disappear. That was about as mystical as | got. Maybe | was simply projecting my own ego. In any case, by the time these women came to me for help, they had already searched their souls and made up their minds. This was not some abstract cause far away—-these were real people in real distress--and | just couldn't say no. For nearly a decade, that became my fetal yoga. And, in the process, | had evolved from a satirist into an activist. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015068