Our Ballots, Our Choice

This is about minority rule. And it always has been.

That’s what I found myself thinking as news of the Supreme Court’s leaked draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade broke back in May.

I thought about the pregnancies that my loved ones, my friends, and I have ended, and about what it would have been like to be forced by the state to carry them to term. I thought about a future of state-enforced pregnancies for my children. I reread contributor Eleanor Cooney recalled her terrifying pre- journey when, as a scared 17-year-old, she was told she was “too far gone” for an abortion, and was sexually assaulted by the doctors she’d come to for help.