Abortion the Taboo

I just think you open up the doors and you laugh at everything. I was the first one to discuss abortion and it was very rough. … And I couldn’t even say the word abortion — I had to say, She had 14 appendectomies. … Everyone went to Cuba to get appendectomies. Or went to Puerto Rico to get appendectomies. That was a big thing. … And by making jokes about it, you brought it into a position where you could look at it and deal with it. It was no longer something that you couldn’t discuss and had to whisper about. When you whisper about something, it’s too big and you can’t get it under control and take control of it.

~ Joan Rivers (born:1933-06-08 died:2014-09-04 at age:81)