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Florida's anti-abortion law is a slap in the face to survivors like me | Opinion - South Florida Sun Sentinel

Participants wave signs as they walk back to Orlando City Hall during the March for Abortion Access on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Abortions after 15 weeks would be banned in Florida, with no exceptions for rape or incest, under a proposal Republican senators have given final passage and sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his expected signature. The GOP-controlled Senate passed the bill late Thursday, March 3, 2022.
Participants wave signs as they walk back to Orlando City Hall during the March for Abortion Access on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Abortions after 15 weeks would be banned in Florida, with no exceptions for rape or incest, under a proposal Republican senators have given final passage and sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his expected signature. The GOP-controlled Senate passed the bill late Thursday, March 3, 2022.

Growing up in South Florida, I fantasized about moving to Washington, D.C, and pursuing a career in government. My trajectory seemed infinite until my political daydreams became a living nightmare. While volunteering at a state party fundraiser, I was raped. A teenager at that time, I decided it was best to move forward with as little memory of the violation as possible.

My plan seemed successful until I doubled over in pain in a lecture hall a while later. A battery of home pregnancy tests revealed a cruel truth: I was carrying the rapist’s child.



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