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TW / pro-life bs, CSA
When I was a kid I was raised in a very conservative Christian house. I was homeschooled, all my friends wore long Jean skirts and smiled and spoke in really soft voices and had long hair. It was also very pro life. From the age of 10 I started "converting"
When I was a kid I was raised in a very conservative Christian house. I was homeschooled, all my friends wore long Jean skirts and smiled and spoke in really soft voices and had long hair. It was also very pro life. From the age of 10 I started "converting"
people. My family wanted to use me as a story of what adoption can do to help children and why kids like me who were born to teen mothers shouldn't be aborted. I would pass out these tiny little soft plastic replicas of what fetuses look like (they don't actually look like it but
that's what I thought and it's what I told people). I would literally go to public events and pass these out at fairs to young women. The memory of me doing that haunts me now. When I think back on how I would repeat whatever I'd been told, and how I was used as a walking poster
child (literally) for the pro-life movement sickens me. It didn't matter that I was molested in foster care, or that I was moved over a dozen times because my foster parents couldn't deal with my "issues" (what child who had been kidnapped, molested, and taken from their mother
wouldn't have issues?). All that mattered was that I was alive. There was no talk of improving the system, or preventing pregnancies in the first place, only stopping women from making their own decisions. I am sorry to each woman that I talked to and convinced that abortion was
murder. I'm sorry if I ever guilted someone who had already had an abortion. Because that was wrong. They used me, and that was also wrong. The pro life movement doesn't actually care about kids like me. They just care about the principle. They don't care who they hurt.
