Commentary: The best way to keep abortion legal: Women like me should talk openly about having them
by Alena Graedon, Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2019
3 minutes
In the summer of 2016, it felt like all my ships were coming in: I'd secured a teaching job, and I was dating someone new. "Buy a lottery ticket!" a friend said. I did.
Then, unexpectedly, I got pregnant.
I've wanted to be a mom for as long as I can remember. Two years earlier, I'd had an IUD removed when a longtime boyfriend and I began discussing kids. Instead of having a baby, we broke up. And then things worsened: My finances crumbled. My dad got cancer.
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