#TellYourStory how #RoeVsWade affected you. Here’s mine.
I was 17. I didn’t have high self esteem. My parents were either emotionally vacant or physically gone. I equated sex with love. I was wrong. The next part is so much like #ChristineBlasseyFord, I felt like I knew her…
I was 17. I didn’t have high self esteem. My parents were either emotionally vacant or physically gone. I equated sex with love. I was wrong. The next part is so much like #ChristineBlasseyFord, I felt like I knew her…
My “boyfriend” took me to a party. He even came inside to meet my dad. No one had done that. I felt loved…until a couple hours later. He took me to a room in the back of the house. We’d been drinking. I had consensual sex with him. He said he needed to use the bathroom…
He left the room. closed the door. Seconds later it opened, but it wasn’t him. It was several other young men, some older - maybe in their 20s. My boyfriend came in and they tried to hold me down to gang rape me. I fought for my life and clawed one. I told them they’d have to…
…kill me because I wasn’t going to let it happen. Just like Christine I still remember what that room looked like. It didn’t have regular windows, just those small upper ones that I couldn’t crawl through easily. I was screaming. It was like I was outside my body looking in…
I guess they realized I was serious and finally agreed to take me home. I NEVER TOLD ANYONE, but a male friend guessed because he asked me what happened since I never saw the “boyfriend” again and he had bragged about it after people asked about the claw marks I left on him…
A few weeks later, after I tried to forget about it, I missed my period. This was the early 70’s in the Midwest. There wasn’t any easy solution, no pregnancy tests at a drugstore. For a couple months I hoped I was wrong or I’d miscarry. I was scared to deat, but inevitably…
…I was pregnant. By then it was too late for an abortion anyway. I was tiny. I hid the pregnancy from most people, even my closest friends until I was nearly five months pregnant. I knew my only option would be to give the baby up for adoption. Someone took me to a @PPFA clinic.
Here’s where I want to dispel the lie that everyone will help you if you want to give up a child, that you’ll be treated like a hero. That’s not true. My mother kicked me out and made me stay with a horrible family that was from @cc_stl. They were supposed to be an example of…
Where my child would be raised. Instead they treated me like their maid. I called a friend and I was able to stay with her family until I gave birth. I didn’t want to give the baby up after she was born, but no one would or could help me. I’d been fired from my job because…
I was an unwed pregnant teen. Friends I’d know for years never spoke to me again. The #CatholicChurch Woman came to the hospital to make sure the baby was “worth adopting, healthy.” She was. She was beautiful. I told the CC woman I wanted to raise her. She started insulting me…
…told me I would ruin her life like I had mine. I had the strength to tell her to leave. There was a social worker in the hospital who came to help me make the best decision for both myself and my baby. I decided to go ahead with the adoption. She was adopted by a couple who…
…had tried fro over a decade to have their own. There weren’t fertility treatments back then. They had waited a long time for an available baby. The social worker helped me pay for the hospital and delivery. My parents refused to. It was all the money I had. She went to her..
…New family. I went home long enough to find a new job and leave my parents house. Everyone said it was “for the best.” That I could go on to find love and start a family later. Parent promised to pay for college. They didn’t. I met someone a few years later and married…
…I used every type of birth control and always had bad reactions. I was on the pill and got pregnant. That “perfect man” I was promised told me that he would leave me if I didn’t get an abortion. There were several abortion clinics in town by then. I was heartbroken. After doing
…the right thing with the adoption, here I was married to someone who threatened me because I was pregnant even though it wasn’t my fault the pills didn’t prevent pregnancy. My worst nightmare. He became more abusive. Eventually I was able to leave him.
It’s been over 45 years since I said goodbye to my daughter. I never wanted her to know about her father. Would you want to know your father was a rapist? I still can’t even write this without crying. An unplanned pregnancy is never easy to live with but it’s gotten easier to…
…prevent pregnancy. Medical advances have improved all aspects. People are accepting of not just single mothers, but also same sex couples and single men. Still, all the things that can go wrong in a pregnancy exist. Until today it had become easier for a woman in the USA…
…to make that decision for herself. Insurance actually covers those choices, or did anyway. It’s not the end of my story, but I hope it’s enough. Everyone knows someone who’s had to make this choice. #ProChoice is #ProLife. I didn’t have the courage to take my own life…
…but that’s what a lot of women did, and will do more now. You won’t be saving millions of lives, @USSupremeCourt. You’ll be ruining them. I’m not looking for pity or sympathy. I want people to know the truth about what a poor, single woman has to deal with if she ends up…
…pregnant with no income, no savings, no safe haven.
Dear @POTUS @JoeBiden @DrBiden @VP @KamalaHarris
Don’t make my story be repeated by others. Do something. Do anything. Maybe there’s a compromise. We need to stop the lies about live babies being aborted. Restore #RoeVsWade
Dear @POTUS @JoeBiden @DrBiden @VP @KamalaHarris
Don’t make my story be repeated by others. Do something. Do anything. Maybe there’s a compromise. We need to stop the lies about live babies being aborted. Restore #RoeVsWade
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Sorry for the typos but I was crying while I typed this.
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