Return to main Judith Arcana Writings PageMy father tells me something You know, your mother
had an abortion, it was before you and your brothers were born, in
the thirties, about a year after we got married, so we must have been
twenty one, both of us. She went, Annie went, to our family doctor,
it was Jack Kornofsky, your mother’s cousin – well, he married
your mother’s cousin Dorothy – he was the one we went to
whenever anything was wrong, he would come out to the house when you
kids got sick, do you remember him at all? He wore glasses, had a
big smile. He would come when you had a fever, and he would always
bring a Hershey bar in his bag for you kids – imagine a doctor
doing that! Well, he knew you all loved Hershey bars. He and Dorothy
were at our wedding. So anyway, he told her she was pregnant. When
Annie came home and told me, we went back to him together, you know,
and asked him what we should do. We didn’t think about it the
way you do, the way everybody does now, we didn’t talk about
it, we just knew it wouldn’t be good if we had a baby then, so
young, just starting out. This was the Depression, we were still living
with your grandparents in the old house on Saywell. So we asked him,
Kornofsky, what to do. He sent us to this other doctor, oh listen,
all of a sudden I remember his name, it was Ryan, his name was Ryan,
can you beat that? All these years never thinking about it, why should
I suddenly remember his name? So Kornofsky gave us the address and
phone number of this other doctor, Ryan, who would do abortions. But
no, no, if he hadn’t told us what to do, who to see, hadn’t
given us the address, I guess she would have had the baby, we wouldn’t
have known what else to do, I don’t know what else there would
have been to do. Maybe your mother would have had some other ideas,
maybe the women knew something, like you do, now, but you know, I
don’t think so – as I remember it, she didn’t know
any more than I did. |
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