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Abortion : The Narration Of A Mother And My Life

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A woman gets pregnant at fifteen years old, therefore she is forced by her parents to marry the father. She gets pregnant again, after three months of having the first baby, but the second baby is born premature. Two years after marrying the father, she mets a woman who she falls in live with and becomes her 20 years (until this day) life-long partner. Definitely, not the typical teen-mom story you see in MTV. This woman is my mom, my biggest inspiration in life and to whoever meets her. However, you would think that knowing my mom for 21 years, I would know everything about her, how she raised me, how she felt about having me and my sister and many other things, but that’s not the case. Through this interview project, I learned more about my mother than what I’ve learned in 21 years. Besides getting to know her journey as a mother, we mainly discussed one major subjects discussed in class (not included in the answers): reprouctive rights and abortion. As a teenage girl, motherhood was not in her current plans, however it all changed when she fell in love with a senior in high school, had unprotected sex and found out she was four months pregnant at the age of fifteen. As I interviewed her, she rise the concerned of how sex was a taboo and how her parents never discussed with her safe sex. They were aware that she had a boyfriend, but sex was such a taboo that they rather not educate her about the consequences of unprotected sex. The subject wasn’t even discussed in

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