Children shouldn't be forced to have children. Roe protected those abused like I was.
Some of us don’t get to choose two times over. We don’t choose to have sex. We don’t get to choose to become mothers. And that is evil, too.
Emilee CoblentzI was barely 14 the night he decided to break into my house. With one hand around my neck and another over my mouth, he shook me awake and whispered, “Get into the car.” This was a familiar face. I thought it was some kind of joke. It wasn’t.
I am lucky that the darkest night of my life didn’t result in a pregnancy, but for many girls it does. We celebrate the fact that the teen birth rate in the United States has been declining since 1991, but we fail to recognize that a major reason for this decline is access to reproductive rights and health.
I’ve heard it said that the areas where we are most justice-seeking are usually the areas where we hold the most pain. For me, this is certainly true. I wonder what will happen now that abortion is no longer protected under the Constitution – not to women, but to children.