Daily News | Four Pennsylvanians who had an abortion reflect on life after Roe
the fear, the frustration, the burning-hot rage from Americans having to fight for a right they’d already fought to make theirs.for whom the issue is either an abstract crusade or yet another overly politicized battlefield in the nation’s ongoing culture war.But one group that we haven’t heard enough from are those at the center of it all — those who have the lived experience of exercising their right to choose.
The grandmother who knows what life was like before a woman had the constitutional right to make decisions over her own body.The young woman who knew an unplanned pregnancy would upend the generational progress for which she’d worked so hard.I was a teenage mom, working full time and in college. It was a very hard decision to make, but it was the right decision.
Even with abortions being legal in our generation, I had girlfriends that couldn’t come up with the money and took drastic measures. Some of them ended up not being able to have kids for the rest of their lives. I think about friends that ended up getting subjected to thatIt’s something that people are doing, still, in secret. I know it’s a very personal thing, but we have to take the stigma off of it. Women have to be able to make decisions for their body that are right for them.
I transitioned when I was 39 years old. So as far as the world saw me, I was a woman, non-conforming, but a woman, so I’m always outing myself. The whole purpose of that is to make things easier for the people who come behind me and the idea that the people who come after me — the women primarily, but anyone with a uterus — are going to be denied the same rights that I had, even less, is abhorrent.I would have killed myself or done something dangerous to try to stop the pregnancy.
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