Pregnant, Personhood, Autonomy, Condtional, Jia Tolentino

“Anyone who can get pregnant must now face the reality that half of the country is in the hands of legislators who believe that your personhood and autonomy are conditional – who believe that, if you are impregnated by another person, under any circumstance, you have a legal and moral duty to undergo pregnancy, delivery, and, in all likelihood, two decades or more of caregiving, no matter the permanent and potentially devastating consequences for your body, you heart, your mind, your family, your ability to put food on the table, your plans, your aspirations, your life.” - Writer Jia Tolentino in an op-ed for The New Yorker.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2022 issue, page 4.

Alone and Scared, Want to Live, Yenifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick

“I’m alone and scared. … Where is my mom. … I want to live.” - 27-year-old Yenifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick, texting her husband from an ambulance and the hospital in the weeks before her death from pregnancy-related hypertension and pulmonary edema, according to The New Yorker; an abortion likely would have saved her life, but she was pregnant in Texas, and the Supreme Court had just overturned Roe.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Spring 2024, page 6.