Summary

Heidi resumes her fifteen-year-old persona as she comments on how much she loves Clause 3, “one of the most miraculous clauses” in the “entire Constitution” (28). As she comments on its being rooted in the principle of due process, she refers to it having been the basis of America’s controversial abortion law, Roe vs. Wade. She describes how a judge found that the right to privacy, referenced in Clause 3, was at the heart of a woman’s right to do what she wanted with her own body, and how that became part of the ruling legalizing abortion in America. She then says that while she agrees with a woman’s right to choose, it is not a choice that she would make.

But then, switching out of her fifteen-year-old persona and back to her adult persona, she describes how she got pregnant (at the...