WOMEN WITH SHADOWS. Amy Welborn on pro-life fiction. [ETA: Actually, both Amy’s post and this one are more about abortion in fiction generally, not stuff that could be labeled “pro-life.”] Comments also interesting–from Spike Milligan to A.S. Byatt–and I expect Cacciaguida would agree with the name-checking of Die Frau Ohne Schatten. I’d add David Adams Richards’s novel Mercy Among the Children, and Jaime Hernandez’s short comic “Flies on the Ceiling: The True Story of Isabel in Mexico” (maybe the most sad and frightening comic I’ve ever read). As long as we’re here, I’ll say that I have a published short story, “Why Can’t He Be You?”, which takes place at a conference for ex-abortion clinic workers, although that story is really more about the aftermath of conversion than it is about abortion.