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Jig's View On Abortion
The man controls the woman by saying that the operation - an abortion - is really nothing, even though he doesn’t know what it’s really like. Right from the start, the man thought to control the woman to do the abortion by saying that it's nothing. The man states this opinion, “I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just let the air in”. (24) The man says that it's nothing, but he never had a operation - an abortion - in his life and saying those stuff to her. The man says this for the woman would react and say yes because the man is saying that it’s OK and it’s safe to the operation. The man also says to the woman “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig, the man said. it’s not really an operation at all”. The
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