Perspective: I had an abortion in Alabama. Thank God it wasn’t against the law.
Margeaux Hartline, dressed as a character from"The Handmaid's Tale," protests outside the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday. By Mandy Trichell Mandy Trichell is a personal trainer, writer and mother of three. She volunteers for Clinic Access Support Network in Houston, Texas. May 16 at 10:29 AM I had an abortion in Alabama when I was 14. If the state’s laws had been the same then as they are now, my whole life would be different.
Arrangements were made for me to stay with my aunt Deedee, who lived about six hours away in Florence, Ala., and for my mother to meet me there. Dad, who would later become a Christian minister, was unhappy with the plan. He wanted me to stay with him or to raise the baby himself, though he already had seven children of his own, with five different mothers. When my aunt came to pick me up, he pleaded with her to make sure that I didn’t have an abortion.
We found the pathway lined with screaming protesters. One man, blind with anger as he shouted down my aunt, crossed over the property line and was arrested. A woman yelled at my mother that she should be ashamed, and my mother yelled right back. Once we were inside, however, the clinic was quiet and the staff pleasant. For them, this was just an ordinary day.
For years, lawmakers have been coming up with new ways to block abortion access. In 2019, 13 states have passed or are considering bills that make abortions illegal after six weeks of pregnancy. Still, this Alabama measure came as a shock: It was so extreme, and had been passed and signed into law so quickly. It prohibits the procedure outright, at any stage of pregnancy. By design — the better to challenge Roe v. Wade — it makes no exceptions for rape or incest.
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