...born to high school sweethearts, a high school valedictorian now a sophomore in college (her) and one a four sport all state athlete, a senior (him).
Small town, West Virginia.
They planned to marry after school. A librarian, and a coach....
But I came along. He gave up his baseball scholarship to WVU to get a job so he could man up.
She left with her parents on a Myrtle Beach vacation in June, and then she went away...to stay with her grandmother, out of state, until time to go into the home for unwed mothers.
Once upon a time, babies like me were a commodity. The same people who decry abortion also INSISTED that middle class white girls and young women who found themselves pregnant give their babies away. These same people no longer adopt from the US, but from overseas. because Jesus???
Roe v Wade changed the market for babies: the supply of healthy white infants born to unwed mothers became the children of single mothers.
Pre-Roe, and this is what the generations after mine (Gen X) did not now about, all the stte by state abortion restrictions did was create dead women.
Fun fact: I had a heart attack at 24. (much easier to get over when you are young and healthy. Just sayin') which was "typically fatal in labor and delivery." I'm kind of why there are heart attack warnings on birth control. These Dominionists already conflate abortificient with contraception, and the attacks on birth control are already happening. WOmen's reproductive health is the lens through which I studied American History.
So, early on, I knew there'd be no babies for me. My super Christianist NW Iowa in-laws do not like when I ask them what I should do in the event Mr. Oh Nette and I conceived....
This is why Roe matters on a much, much grander scale.
vote 'em out
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