A year before Roe vs. Wade

As her father, I too loved Susan and will remember as long as I have a memory the day we picked her up at Hope Cottage in Dallas a day or two after she turned two months old.

I remember the joy she brought to our family and the tears I shed 38 years later on the morning her mother called and told me of her death.

My thoughts returned to her again six or eight years ago when I heard of another death,…