President Donald Trump (L) introduces 7th U.S. But there many ways to ensure that abortion and birth control are only options for the rich and well-connected, even if Chief Justice John Roberts (a highly skilled politician) can persuade justices not to gut Roe completely to shield the court from criticism that it’s a right-wing partisan institution.
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Wade survives (with the loudest voices coming from folks who believe they have no skin in the game). There are a lot of theoretical debates right now whether Roe v. That she’s been tapped to replace women’s rights champion Ruth Bader Ginsburg is undoubtedly meant to add insult to injury.īarrett’s quote that abortion is “ always immoral” is well-known. I thought about erasing these words dozens of times.īut I feel I have an obligation to share this in light of Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, who conservative groups have complete faith in to dismantle reproductive rights in America and deny people the most basic health care. I have never written about this in such detail and it was extraordinarily painful to do. This is deeply personal and private grief. I cry every year on the anniversary of my miscarriage.
I cried for my then-first grader who lost a sibling she would never know and love and fight with. I cried for the child I never even knew I was carrying and was gone. On my first solo hiking trip to the California desert two years later, I stopped in the middle of a canyon and just wept. Within a year, I’d left my job (my boss’ only reaction was to ask if I’d have my Sunday package on time) and I was divorced. The event that took all of a few seconds did change my life. “You will get through this, but you will never forget it and it’s OK,” she assured me. She had a late-term miscarriage and she talked me down and let me cry for the first time. I cleaned the floor before I cleaned up myself. As I hunted for towels and bleach and started scrubbing the small white tile and the grout, the damned grout, I distinctly remembering thinking that she could never see this. And now, quite suddenly, I wasn’t.Īfter the initial shock, my first thought was that I had to clean up the mess - right away - before my daughter came home from daycare. I had the odd sensation of looking down as an observer, realizing that yes, I had been pregnant (I was too caught up with work and my toddler to realize I’d been late). It was an out-of-body experience, really. When I looked down at the bathroom floor that was covered in blood and tissue, I knew in an instant that I had miscarried. I got up to take a shower and felt something rush out of me. Fourteen years ago, I found myself home from work relatively early and went to (very uncharacteristically) lie down for a few minutes, exhausted from covering the statewide primary election.