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I was married at 18, pregnant at 19, and a mom by 20. I am from rural Arkansas and I am not an anomaly. I was actually proud to say I wasn't a teenage mom. I was able to get out of poverty with Pell grants and Medicaid, but these social safety nets are under attack. They want...
to keep us poor, pregnant, and desperate. I am the face of a rural woman...there is a concerted effort on the part of the GOP to force ignorance into our communities by deleting sex ed, history, and school in general. They will keep us undereducated so we can work for less...
They will force pregnancy on young girls to keep them hopeless of ever getting out of poverty. They will keep an education a dream with the only option being a lifetime of debt. They will bust unions and keep us too busy paying bills and working two jobs to look up and see who...
is responsible. It's the billionaires and the folks they finally moved into power after decades of silent work. They have SCOTUS and they have red states like mine. They laugh in our face while they blame us for not having enough grit or perseverance. They hate us. Just ask them.
To those who will call me drain on society, I worked throughout my pregnancy. I was a cashier at Walmart and made 4.25/hour. I had health insurance, but they denied paying for a pregnancy, hence Medicaid. I went back to work when my son was 14 days old -- I had no maternity pay.
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