We Can't Go Back.

So, this is the hardest thing I have ever written, but I am just gonna throw it out there.

I am very upset with the overturning of Roe vs. Wade.

I was sexually assaulted when I was 17 years old (before I was in college).

I became pregnant and I had an abortion.

Ok, that was hard to say.

Typically, I do not believe in abortion, but when it is an unwanted pregnancy from an unwanted assault, I should be able to have a conversation with my family or my physician – or both - and I should be able to make the decision that is best for me. I am angry. I am very angry.

My assailant wasn’t even put on trial for the crime. He got a plea deal where HE is now living his own life.

And me? I got an unwanted pregnancy.

He said it was consensual, of course.

But it wasn’t and that was proven.

I was assaulted.

If this had happened to me now, I would have been forced to wait until he pleaded out – 3 months later – and way outside the current timeline acceptable for an abortion in my state.

This isn’t fair.

I am going into my senior year in college and I want to ask women on campuses to take a stand to find a middle ground with abortion rights in America.

Women’s rights can’t go backward.

We need to be proactive. Stay strong women.

We deserve better.