Arts 4 Choice

A year after I began my menstrual cycle I was put on birth control to help regulate my horrible abnormal bleeding. There would be times were I'd bleed the entire month. The pain would start several days before, then launch into an explosion that sometimes lasted a month. At such a young age I didn't understand why all my friends would spend a day uncomfortable, bleed for 3-4 days and be fine. While I'd spend days holding myself on the floor and bleeding for weeks. Once I was placed on birth control, the endlessly long periods were shortened and the pain was manageable.

Then, in 2009 I was kicked off health insurance because I wasn't in school anymore and that meant no more birth control. During that year my body shifted back to abnormal bleeding and the pain began to increase. I wasn't at all prepared for what was to come. On November 26th 2010, what felt like a bomb, went off inside my uterus.

After multiple hospital and doctor visits, and multiple weeks spent holding myself as I writhed in pain, I was diagnosed with endometriosis. Thankfully once the Affordable Care Act was passed I was able to be back on health care and back on birth control. Birth control continues to help me manage my endometriosis.

When I imagine not having access to a medicine that helps me function, I am horrified. When I imagine being denied access to an abortion if I have an ectopic pregnancy, (because

that is a possibility with endometriosis) I am infuriated. My soul hurts watching my rights and the rights of others with a uterus come under attack with the overturn of Roe v Wade.


Abortion IS health care!


While I'm fortunate to live in a state that allows me the right to make a choice about an abortion, so many other states are shutting that option down.


The Yellowhammer Fund is "abortion fund and reproductive justice organization

serving Alabama, Mississippi, and the Deep South"

(Want to learn more? Link to who they are- https://www.yellowhammerfund.org/).

They help folks access abortions and other reproductive care regardless of circumstances. With your help I'm hoping to raise a minimum of $5,000.00. So far over $4,075 has been raise for The Yellowhammer Fund!


Any little bit helps!🩷

 

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