Perspective: The right to choose abortion is vital, even when women don’t choose it.
Here’s what I found myself thinking about while I watched those buoyant antiabortion activists — so many of whom were young women who branded themselves the “Post-Roe Generation” without yet being weighed down by life experiences to know what that meant. I found myself thinking about life experiences. Not about the abortions women will no longer be able to have, but about the choices they will no longer be able to make.
As America waited like a rabbit in headlights for this decision to come down , I heard from a lot of women about their abortions. But I heard from just as many women about the abortions theyhave. The options that were open to them. The choices they knew were theirs to choose, and the futures that unfurled because of that.
False alarm, though. The baby was fine. She didn’t have to make the terrible decision, but she later told me that the only mercy she could find while waiting for those test results was in the idea that the terrible decision would at least have been hers. The point was not having an abortion, Justice Alito. The point was knowing that your life didn’t have to be ruined. The point was that if you became accidentally pregnant, you didn’t have to give up the scholarship, the graduate program, the cross-country move. You didn’t have to be trapped in a miserable relationship by the financial needs of a baby. A single mistake didn’t have to punish you forever..
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