A trans-man, beginning his life as the person he always knew himself to be, now being told, yet again, that his body does not belong to him and to him alone to make decisions about as he wishes. A mother living in poverty, struggling to support the children she already has, forced to continue a pregnancy that she can ill afford. Doctors facing a horrible dilemma-should they provide their patients the life-saving care that they need and face criminal charges that could lead to a life in prison-or deny that care and face the consequences of the medical malpractice suits that will surely follow? Children forced to carry the pregnancy of a rapist because of someone’s twisted immoral belief that bearing the consequence of that rape will somehow provide her with “healing.”Ī young college woman facing an abrupt break in the dreams she had for herself. Women told they must wait until they are septic or undergoing some other urgent life threatening situation before their doctors can intervene.
Women, already grappling (as I once did) with the reality of a fatal fetal abnormality, now struggling to receive the care they need to terminate a pregnancy-an act borne of love for the life they hoped would be.