Abortion
This is among the heaviest images a dream can offer, and it rarely concerns the literal event. More often it touches something being ended before its time — a plan, a hope, a direction — and the grief or relief that ending carries. The dream tends to ask what is being let go, and whether the choice sits easy or hard.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for abortion, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
For a woman to dream that she assents to abortion being committed on her, is a warning that she is contemplating some enterprise which if carried out will steep her in disgrace and unhappiness.
For a doctor to dream that he is a party to an abortion, foretells that his practice will suffer from his inattention to duty, which will cause much trouble.