In 2006 I got pregnant from a one night stand. I didn’t have his phone number and I didn’t know his name. I had been made homeless by my parents several times from the strict religious house I was rebelling against. My father had not spoken to me in years but we lived in the same house. Obviously, a 17 year old girl who was in her first year of college with a fraught family dynamic in a council estate could not have had a child. I put off the phone call to the GP even though I knew immediately that I was pregnant because I was so frightened and overwhelmed. I went to the appointment and thankfully secured a referral to an abortion clinic. The entire process was humiliating. They also gave me a birth control injection which I had not consented to. I’m glad I was able to access the healthcare for free when I so desperately needed it and I will always, always support these rights for everyone. The right to access to healthcare, bodily autonomy, medical consent are all basic human rights of which so many of us, especially women and trans people, in this era. How awful. I have no regrets, I am filled with gratitude and have remained happily child free and intend to remain so.
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