Tremendous article. Hope it finds a wide audience, and hope we receive more humanizing stories like this from all those impacted by the right's Draconian anti-abortion laws. Too many unheard tragedies that remind us, time and again, that politics and policies are matters of life and death.
Thank you. This was difficult to read on a number of levels. Thank you to the author for sharing with all of us. And thank you to Jerusalem and the Argument for getting it out.
Thank you for taking the care you took in order to publish this. It is so difficult to imagine that we are now living in a country where many states are practicing enforced pregnancy. I hope that things change again before my granddaughter has to live in such a place. Women have been managing and ending pregnancy for millennia, and regardless of illiberal policies, they will continue to do so now, often without the safety and efficacy of legal and medically sound practices.
Even worse than enforced pregnancy, they’re saying “if you might need an abortion later, you should just get it now and not bother trying to bring this to term”.
This is the perspective that many people are missing when they compare new US abortion restrictions to the longstanding ones in many European countries. Limiting abortion for any reason to the first 12 weeks is reasonable in a country where almost every woman is going to know she's pregnant and get an abortion if she wants one in that time period. If you have to wait weeks to even do intake, how can you reasonably expect to be able to obey that kind of law?
Great piece of writing and such an important story. Thank you for sharing your story, and thank you to the Argument for taking the time and effort to publish this.
Appreciate the author for taking the risk of writing this. It's an important reminder that if we want to fix the growing political polarization between genders there is going to have to be some sort of guarantee for woman's bodily autonomy.
A moving and important piece; thank you for publishing it.
Tremendous article. Hope it finds a wide audience, and hope we receive more humanizing stories like this from all those impacted by the right's Draconian anti-abortion laws. Too many unheard tragedies that remind us, time and again, that politics and policies are matters of life and death.
Sound argument
Instant sobriety.
The epiphany was the sudden, simultaneous awareness of all that we've lost, along with all we still have — and all that we still might lose…
Thanks for this essay, and thanks to The Argument, along with Substack, for publishing it.
Thank you. This was difficult to read on a number of levels. Thank you to the author for sharing with all of us. And thank you to Jerusalem and the Argument for getting it out.
Thank you for taking the care you took in order to publish this. It is so difficult to imagine that we are now living in a country where many states are practicing enforced pregnancy. I hope that things change again before my granddaughter has to live in such a place. Women have been managing and ending pregnancy for millennia, and regardless of illiberal policies, they will continue to do so now, often without the safety and efficacy of legal and medically sound practices.
Even worse than enforced pregnancy, they’re saying “if you might need an abortion later, you should just get it now and not bother trying to bring this to term”.
This is the perspective that many people are missing when they compare new US abortion restrictions to the longstanding ones in many European countries. Limiting abortion for any reason to the first 12 weeks is reasonable in a country where almost every woman is going to know she's pregnant and get an abortion if she wants one in that time period. If you have to wait weeks to even do intake, how can you reasonably expect to be able to obey that kind of law?
Great piece of writing and such an important story. Thank you for sharing your story, and thank you to the Argument for taking the time and effort to publish this.
Appreciate the author for taking the risk of writing this. It's an important reminder that if we want to fix the growing political polarization between genders there is going to have to be some sort of guarantee for woman's bodily autonomy.