i studied political science in college, and somewhere along the way i chose choice as my main issue. not because of a personal experience or because of a friend or family member’s experience, just because i saw the assault on women’s rights and believed that it was someone’s job to counter-act it.<\/p>\n
a year after graduating from college i moved halfway across the country to work on a political campaign. i was trying to help elect a pro-choice female candidate. two months after moving to a state where i knew only a handful of people, the unthinkable, “it could never happen to me” thing happened despite the use of two kinds of birth control.<\/p>\n
i barely made enough money to support myself, and still occasionally called home to borrow a few dollars to get me to payday. campaigns can require up to 80 hour work weeks and this was my first job in the field. i knew i couldn’t afford a child. my career would be over just it had started. i would end up working for near minimum wage, collecting state assistance, and living with my parents.<\/p>\n
in tears i called my mother, and she revealed to me that at the age of 16, just after roe v. wade, she had been in the same situation. i didn’t ask many questions, but she told me she never regretted having an abortion. she wouldn’t have the wonderful life with a loving husband of 35 years or four successful children if she had become a mother at the age of 16. we had never discussed abortion before.<\/p>\n
she told me that she’d support any decision i made.<\/p>\n
so i made the decision to have an abortion so that i could have the future i had spent years working towards. luckily, i was fortunate enough to be living in a state without many restrictions, and i was fortunate enough to find a clinic that accepted my health insurance. even with insurance, the trip across the state was more than i could afford.<\/p>\n
the only regret i could conceive was having to talk about abortion on a professional level with the guilt of a personal story. it’s been a year now, and i don’t feel any guilt. thanks to the support of my mother, i’ve turned this personal story into a triumph.<\/p>\n
most women are not fortunate enough to have transportation to a clinic, heath insurance that will cover the cost of an abortion, or a family member who can provide them with extra money in times of need. but i was. most of all, though, i was lucky enough to have the support of a family member who had been in my shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
i studied political science in college, and somewhere along the way i chose choice as my main issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_世界杯2022亚洲预选赛b组 ":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[307,321],"class_list":["post-19692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-stories","tag-insurance","tag-parental-involvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/世界杯2022亚洲预选赛b组 ?parent=19692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.k12fl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}