Washington, D.C. — “My mother told me that she tried to induce a miscarriage by jumping off chairs and trunks,” the late former mayor of New York wrote in 1989. He explained that she had told him she had had several abortions in her life. In this experience, she was pregnant with her third child after his father had lost his business, Koch explained. “We were very poor. The prospect of another mouth to feed posed serious problems,” he wrote. Her desperate attempt at ending the pregnancy didn’t work. And at the point of acceptance, she was worried sick that she had done damage to her child. Thanks be to God, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. (“I thank God that Pat is here” are his words.) About her, Koch wrote, “Not only was she not injured, she went on to be one of the most remarkable women I’ve ever met.”
“It would have been a tragedy if she’d never been born,” he concluded.
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