“If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other peo- ple to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.” - Mother Teresa of Calcutta


In the spring of 1959, abortion was illegal in the US, but still very available for a frightened unmarried teenage mother interested in quietly solving her shameful prob- lem.


However, as young Barbara Walker sat for her senior year portrait at Warren Easton High School in New Orleans, the notion of killing or even giving up her baby never crossed her mind.


She did marry the boy who fathered her child, but he would not stay to share the re- sponsibility of their action.


While most of her friends were preparing for college, or the jobs they were going to 20 Kalon Women Magazine May 2012


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