“Your life would be so miserable if I hadn’t had those two abortions” my mother casually told me as she dropped me off at school. As a young fifth grader her words didn’t really sink in and to be honest, I mostly tuned out her mentally ill ramblings but as an adult I often ponder her reasons for going through with not only one but two abortions as well as telling me at such an early age. Having a mentally ill mother and an absent father I had to grow up fast, no one could take care of me so I had to hide behind a wall and avoid anything that could trigger emotional episodes. The strategy succeeded in making it through adolescence but caused many difficulties as an adult. I winced anytime someone would ask the dreaded question “So what made you so pro-life?” and would go through the list of excuses in my head for a plausible explanation, I just didn’t want anyone to know the truth.

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