The overturning of Roe v Wade. This is not something I take lightly at all, especially as someone who almost got one. As a 19-year-old, I experienced my first pregnancy scare with my first very serious relationship in college. This occurred of course after a conversation with my father about what the consequences would be if I came home pregnant with this person's child, option 1 get an abortion, and option 2 give the baby up for adoption if I carried it to full term. He felt that I shouldn't want to keep the child but if I decided that I wanted to keep the child I was going to be disowned by him at least because what he said went and anything that deviated from that he wanted me to no longer be a part of his life anymore. To have your own father have such a condition to his love and affection still hurts me a lot to this day.
Yet when it comes to voting politically he always votes against those politicians that support equal access for everyone to services like abortions. Why be such a hypocrite? Maybe because it doesn't directly affect him as someone who is cisgender heterosexual middle aged white man?!? These are just some of the questions I have been asking myself as I am feeling the aftermath of this overturning.
As someone who is not ready to have children and this point in my life I will be getting an abortion if I become pregnant with an unplanned pregnancy. The person would be alerted but I would have the last say because it is my body going through this big radical and if they didn't at least buy be a lot of pain killers and provide me with food and heating pads afterwards they'd be out of my live.
