'I wouldn’t exist if my mom didn’t have access to abortion care when she needed it, and my two sons, ages five and one, wouldn’t exist if I was denied the abortion I had when I wasn’t ready, willing, or able to become a mom.'
a challenge to a Louisiana anti-abortion law that would shutter many of the state's clinics, leaving only one abortion provider.
is normal, and for many of us, abortion is just one of the many things we have in common with our parents.I found out I was pregnant, and my mom was visiting for Christmas. It was December 23, and I just realized, randomly, that I hadn’t gotten my period in over two months. So I was like, “Why haven’t IWhen I told her, she told me that she had an abortion when I was [younger] than seven. But the thing is, my mom and I are in very different places regarding our experience.
This is something we should have been talking about in our family, because clearly we’re so for it, so why couldn’t we have? I would have been able to talk to my parents about mine if we were talking about it. I would have felt safer and had a bigger support system.I started sharing my abortion story 10 years ago this year, and it was really really powerful to be able to do that.
Sharing my abortion story with family members, and having them share theirs back, has made me realize how much abortion has shaped our family, and they made it so that certain people are here because of abortion. Abortion is part of the ways our families are formed, as is adoption, as is birth. All of these things influence how our families are formed — we talk about adoption openly in our family; we talk about births and miscarriages.
She said, “I just feel bad that you had to go through that by yourself, because I had an abortion and, for me, it was one of the worst experiences in my life.”around abortion, I was stuck in that place that “all abortions are good abortions” and didn’t allow for nuance in those conversations because I was so combative about “people being anti’s” and stuff like that.
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