“Monday’s news brought home once again that my daughters and millions of girls and women of color from Puerto Rico to the Bronx struggle every day to survive and move forward against forces trying to suppress their voices and personal health decisions.”
There is a line from the Civil War movie “Cold Mountain” that keeps coming to mind on this week’s Supreme Court news: “They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say “Sh-t, it's raining.”
The ability to make a choice about my body has mattered for me personally. It was 20 years ago. I was so poor. I lived in the Soundview section of the Bronx, in a building by a swamp making $15,000 a year. I was in college and raising my daughter Samantha, who I had as a teenager. She was everything to me. I made the decision to terminate a second pregnancy.
For the last 50 years, the ability to make what are very personal decisions about health and situations–whether that’s termination or proceeding with a pregnancy– have been protected. If the Supreme Court goes through with overturning, women in the position I was in 20 years ago won’t have that choice in much of the country. They will not have access to safe abortions.legalized abortion in the United States, thousands of women died each year from unsafe backroom or self-induced procedures.
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