Now, this was a factual evidence session, so obviously we probed her on the details - but even with that, her statement couldn't possibly be true: because she had met me. I don't regret my abortion. I don't regret it one bit. I told her she would have to update her patter next time she made that statement - and offered to introduce her to many of my mates and family who, like me, had no regrets. She seemed less than interested to meet these rhetorically unhelpful women. A shame - they wear cool sparkly jumpers too, I'm sure she'd like them.
Abortion is once again in the news. The overturning of Roe v Wade in the US means that millions of women in conservative regressive states such as Texas or Alabama will no longer have a right to demand access to healthcare.
When I found out that six unelected justices on the supreme court (two of whom have been accused of sexual harassment, which they deny) had made this decision, I felt as if I was being punched in the stomach. To hear of such a backwards and regressive step in a nation that lords itself as "the home of the free" made me feel scared - scared for the women who will now die, suffer and be forced into a life they don't want.
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