“In 1921, my great-great-grandmother Anna died because abortions were illegal.
She got pregnant — with her 11th child — when she was 40 years old, a full-time homemaker, married to a produce peddler in New York City….
I’m 16 years old, a junior in high school, looking to the not-so-distant future in which I’ll be attending college far from home. What if I were to get pregnant against my will? What if I were to get pregnant in my teens, without the means of raising a child?
My story is different. I am frightened by what might happen to me….”
