Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman: A 62-Year-Old Woman Told Me She Worries About Not Being Able to Abort Her Babies

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COLEMAN: “I want to share a little story with you, because when we think of this whole issue of abortion, we have a tendency to think of the young child who gets raped — praise God that he will protect and help her to overcome her trauma — a young woman going through her reproductive years, but I had a conversation with somebody I worked with very closely for the last seven years who told me, at the age of 62, she was still having appeared and still sexually active, with grandchildren. And she said, 'What if I got pregnant? There’s no way, at 62, I would have been in a position to be a healthy mom to a new baby.' And so, not only is this impacting the decisions of young women and the protection of young girls and others who have been assaulted and raped, but it also impacts the decision of fully adult women who have this story to tell. But what they did with Roe v. Wade, it only scratches the surface of all the damage that this court has done to this country just recently, I mean recently this term.”