From its flesh-toned cover etched with red tallies marking the author\u27s fifteen aborted pregnancies, to its unflinching accounts of each procedure, Irene Vilar\u27s Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict forces readers to confront the issue of abortion. Though the topic is inevitably divisive, Vilar\u27s purpose, as stated from the prologue of her memoir, is clearly neither didactic nor partisan