abnegation

I tell my daughter about her bodily sovereignty, and Idaho responds by asserting its own control, demanding abnegation — annihilation, even — at the altar of the unborn.

Above all, it requires an abnegation of the self.

Through this, the book shows that there is little space for pleasure-seeking or art-making for a girl like Selin; that being free as a young Turkish American woman-artist in 1996 is not so simple as opting out of marriage and motherhood; that plenty of moments of passive violence, self-destruction and abnegation lie in wait.

And when the government subsequently ignored those legal protections — prompting lawyers to bring the issue to the court in a second case — the court failed to take meaningful action, a failure that some commentators have termed an "evasion by abnegation."

I would even encourage you to start thinking badly of your father, who has ignored his wife’s decision to demonize and torment two of his children in a cowardly abnegation of his parental duty to care for and protect you both.