“She isn’t. She barely even left the dorm. All she did was study.”
“When is she due?”
“Next month.”
“Is she coming back?”
“No. She dropped out.”
“Does anybody know who the father is?”
“No. She won’t tell anyone.”
She was sexually assaulted walking home from the campus library.
She hadn’t wanted to drop out.
She hadn’t wanted to carry her rapist’s child.
But this was 2020 and that choice was gone.
An assault resulting in pregnancy is a living trauma.
Being forced to carry a rapist’s child is an act of new violence that is relived day after day after day - only, the perpetrator is now the government.
A Kavanaugh majority would subject women to government control over their own bodies and lives.
Even after sexual assault.
In punitive regimes, forced child-bearing is a common tool to control and terrorize.
In just and free countries, reproductive choice is a civil right.
Call your Senators. Tell them to vote “no” on Brett Kavanaugh.