Boots ChantillyOct 24, 2024
I’m going to start this #OurAbortionStories 🧵 by sharing that despite always using contraception, I’ve been pregnant 3 times. I have a son (the Pill); I’ve had an #abortion (the Sponge+spermicide jelly); & I’ve had a miscarriage (tubal ligation). If the miscarriage hadn’t ended my 3rd pregnancy, I’d have had a 2nd abortion. If I hadn’t had access to a legal abortion, I’d have had an illegal one. & if I hadn’t had access to that, I’d have committed svicid3. W/O even the slightest hesitation. +
Show threadCharJTF  (she/her)Oct 25, 2024

@BootsChantilly When my son was almost three, I got pregnant. Unlike you (not a criticism!), my chronically ill body loved being pregnant. (My kidneys behaved the entire time.)

And then I had an incomplete miscarriage that required an abortion.

Without it, I would gotten sepsis. Which is what would happen if TFG ends up back in the White House.

#Kamala2024

Show threadBoots Chantilly
@CharJTF Oh, I’m sorry—but I’m so glad you were able to access the care you needed. Some ppl do pregnancy rly well. Some ppl don’t. & like you, some do pregnancy rly well—until that minute they don’t. Which means each of us must be free to choose whether or not we wish to risk our health, our careers, our education, our financial security, our relationships, our bodies, our futures, our lives. 😔 #AbortionIsEssential
Oct 25, 2024 at 1:24amWeb
Show threadCharJTF  (she/her)Oct 25, 2024

@BootsChantilly Thank you 💜 Yeah, the major problem with TFG's abortion laws is they don't account for anything that falls under "do pregnancy really well--until that minute they don't". Well, that and so many other things, like men who don't actually know how birth control pills work or even how women getting pregnant.

One thing I've done is make sure my son knows those things 🙂

Show threadBoots ChantillyOct 26, 2024
@CharJTF Same! We really need to raise smarter, more compassionate, more curious men.