Here are extraordinary companions of metaphor and myth. Owen Barfield on philosophical double vision, Stanley Hopper on the crisis of imagination. Essays by Rollo May, Richard Underwood, Amos Wilder, John Priest further interlace myth, dream, poetry, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, going to the roots of religious feeling in the soul of modern thought. A child must be wanted, or else its life is a living death. Women who abort see beyond the fetus to the true care that every child must have.
Abortion thus can become a sacrifical act.
Those who favor abortion rationalize it as private and medical only. Their view omits religious feeling. At the other extreme, the pro-lifers see the spiritual dimension but keep it imprisoned within official orthodoxies, as if no other form of spirituality existed. This little book presents abortion as a sacrifice to the ancient Greek goddess Artemis, who refuses to give life if the gift is not pure. Her adamant stance shows each woman that other spiritual standards govern family and children than those dictated by law courts, medicine, and narrow notions of religion.