the video taken right after my birth isnt a cute moment when my dad held me for the first time. you know why? because during that video, my mother was being put on life support because her 14 year old body wasnt ready to give birth and i had practically ripped her inside out and my dad couldnt even look at me as the love of his young life was on the brink of death. she died about an hour after i was born.
my mom was forced to have me at 14 and the fact that if she hadnt given her life for me she would still be here with my dad honestly makes me wish i was never born.
my dad loves me and he is my best friend but we struggled a lot and i definitely wasnt able to have the childhood every innocent child deserves because he was so young and wasnt able to properly support me.
i was lucky when it comes to being raised by a single teen parent but others arent so lucky.
no child deserves to be neglected because their parent(s) are not ready/do not want a child.
THIS is whats going to happen now that womens' basic human rights have been ripped away from us.
banning abortions is NOT going to stop abortions. it is going to stop SAFE abortions and it is going to result in so many deaths of women who did not the choice to decide what is right for them and THEIR bodies.
how is a teenage girl that is not old enough to get a full time job, or consent, or vote, or even get a damn tattoo old enough to be forced to have a child that they cannot properly raise and support.
because this is not about the children. this is about hate for women, this is about the power and control men want to have over women.
if this was about the children they want to force women to bring into this world, they would also address the baby formula shortage and do more to protect the already living, breathing children from gun violence and they would enforce a nationwide paid maternity leave.
but they arent going to.
because this is about power.