"Marion’s mother continuously brought strange, dangerous men into the home — men who were told that Marion was promiscuous and up for anything. She was raped again and again."
"When Marion got pregnant a second time, at the age of 17 — again, hoping to escape her dysfunctional family — her mother actually drove her to the abortion clinic to make sure she would end the pregnancy. “I told the nurse, ‘I don’t want to do this. My mother is forcing me to do this. Can you help me?’” recalls Marion. “And she said, ‘There are other people waiting. Do you want to have this procedure done or not?’ I couldn’t think of what else to do. Where could I go? Who would help me pay for everything the baby would need? So I had an abortion. Again.”
"People always say that women need to have abortions because they are desperate. But I was desperate, and I didn’t want to have an abortion, and was forced to anyway. Everyone I talked to told me it was the only way, even though it wasn’t what I wanted.”
"According to Marion, far from solving her problems, her abortions “just made everything worse — layering trauma over trauma.” Because she was a victim herself, she couldn’t help but identify with her unborn children as victims.
“There are a lot of women like me who aren’t given the help they truly need,” states Marion. “I’ve talked to many women who said, ‘This is my decision to have an abortion. My boyfriend left me, and my parents said they won’t help or support me through college unless I get an abortion — but it’s totally my decision.’ What? How is that your decision? You’re pregnant, your school won’t let pregnant women stay in the dorms, but it’s your decision to have an abortion?”
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