Opinion: I want a say in whether or not my future is derailed by someone else's action

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Priya Moran

I have almost started crying multiple times while standing in the bathroom with my friends, and I never really expected to get here.

Sure, I care about politics. I'm basically studying that to try and make a living, but since someone decided to take away what little control I have over my life and my body as is, I guess that's enough to push someone to want to cry in their bathroom on a random Tuesday afternoon. I want to scream. I want to yell.

I already walk through the world afraid of things that some of these people making decisions about my body will never comprehend. After one year of college, I have learned that it is tough to understand things unless you experience them, so why should I expect some men — and a few highly qualified but not necessarily focused women — to understand my day-to-day life and why my stomach drops with the news that my right to bodily autonomy has the chance of being ripped away from me?. So, instead of ranting about how angry I am surrounding Roe v. Wade, I will share a few essential things that I believe will help anyone understand why I am so angry whenever the topic comes up.

First, let's start small. Even if you do not want me to get an abortion, overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling can likely overturn other laws that will impact my access to contraception. I have been on birth control for over two years now, not as a form of contraception but as a way to make my menstruation more tolerable. My life falls apart once a month, birth control, I throw up, almost faint, have heat flashes, and ultimately end up missing things like classes or work. Overturning my access to this medicine does not make me any less likely to kill an unborn child; it just makes my life more hellish once every month. And all of this can be solved simply by letting me, a functioning adult, have control over my own actions and body.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-want-whether-not-future-090156148.html

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1. Absolutely!

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2. A lot

of women take b.c. for that very reason. Of course republicans don’t know that or if they do, don’t care.