“It doesn’t matter, under the law, if they were raped, or if telling their parents they’re pregnant will put them in danger. It doesn’t even matter if their father was the one who impregnated them.
“In Texas, as long as Senate Bill 8 stands, abortion is going to be unavailable to some of the state’s most vulnerable teenagers.” – NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/opinion/abortion-texas-teens.html?
As writer Robin Stevenson, says: “Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn’t make it any less common; it just makes it dangerous. Around the world, tens of thousands of women die from unsafe abortions every year.”
(https://robinstevenson.com/books/mybodymychoice/)
Posting in solidarity with all women capable of getting pregnant in Texas in 2021.
In this podcast, we step 53 years back in time, and listen to one young woman’s view of the problem of being unmarried and pregnant in 1968. From my new novel, KENNEDY GIRL.
High school graduate Teresa Feeney becomes pregnant from one encounter with a trusted priest Father Sully, who is leading a choir of students in a showcase of songs from the radical hippie production of HAIR. Annie Shea, herself from an enormous Catholic family where abortion is unthinkable, reluctantly becomes Teresa’s confidante. When Annie realizes Teresa is going to do what she desperately needs to do, she has to make a decision: Will she stand by her schoolmate and offer support during this dangerous, illegal procedure?
