When I read the woman’s story in today’s comic, I think about what history we’re making right now and all the individual and collective effects the decisions of today are causing.
My speculation isn’t isolated to the abortion landscape, though it’s certainly top of mind of late.
I think broadly about how our systems treat people of color, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ community.
I think about how society is responding to climate change and what that will mean for our children’s futures — if they will decide to have relationships and families or even the chance to live out what they want to be when they grow up.
I think about how many women there may be in the years to come, not only experiencing dangerous medical procedures but also harboring a secret that can be so fundamental to a person’s life and worldview.
These issues and situations are unwieldy, often easier to push out of our minds until it affects us personally. It seems to me that it will take each one of us finding some time to expose ourselves to these difficult realities to mitigate history’s uncanny way of repeating itself.
-Halle Stockton, PublicSource Editor-in-Chief
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