I had an abortion when I was 17.
From a strict Greek immigrant family, my mother treated me like a criminal when she found out what was happening. If I had also been treated like a criminal by the state that I lived in—and I’m writing this as the election results come in—I wouldn’t have survived.
Needless to say, I didn’t tell my mother about my second abortion in my 20s, or my miscarriage in my early 40s.
