I had an abortion...

[orleans]

66. i was 14. roe had passed eight months earlier. my mom took me.

the doctor was youngish (early 30s?), kind of hip, longish hair, pierced ear. a sign in his waiting room said he also did ear piercings. he was so nice. i cried, quietly, the whole time i was on the table.

then another one in my late teens.

twelve years later i had my daughter--the light of my life. (her father kept nagging me to have an abortion. we weren't married. i stopped taking his calls. got back in touch with him when she was two. they had an off and on relationship. she hasn't talked to him for a several years. he doesn't know he's a grandfather. he's a big trumper apparently, and, hypocritically, very anti-abortion according to his fb posts)

the third abortion happened when my daughter was a few years old.

there are reasons and circumstances that i'm not going to get into. i did what i needed to do.

if and when states start banning abortions women will be getting those back alley abortions again. or bleeding to death from the coat-hanger abortions.