Inside, their mother, a striking 40-year-old literary agent with big, brown eyes, long, straight hair and a Spanish-inflected lilt that gives away her Puerto Rican roots, is describing how, from the age of 16 to 33, she could neither stop herself from conceiving, nor from terminating her pregnancies. Fifteen of them.

She explores her history in a brutally frank new memoir, "Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict."

Even before it was published last week, Vilar's story unleashed a wave of emotion in the anti-abortion community. Reactions

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