Her parents were in shock. Her mother reacted furiously, her father sad and shocked. Abortion was not an option, her father said, because of the faith. She didn’t want that either, but because of the love for her unborn baby. “I was shocked, but also thought somewhere: maybe this child is an escape to a better life.”
Her boyfriend, a 21-year-old boy with whom she spent a few months, wanted nothing to do with it. “I wrote letters, begged him. His parents told me abortion was the only option.”
Tara is silent for a moment. Now she would have finished her word. She would shut up those parents in one second. She would say, “Ho, ho, ho. My body. You have nothing to say about it, cutie.” But then? Tara, 16, did nothing. Except wish she could crawl into the earth.
Everyone looked at Tara
There was a ‘strange vibe’ at school. “I was that gray, boring Jehovah girl. And suddenly I was pregnant, I became a walking attraction. Boys and girls looked at me, shouted mean things. Like,” Who wants to sleep with you? ” custom finish.
“What I find most painful about that period is that people will only judge when you get pregnant so early.”
“You probably haven’t been on the pill.”
“Have you ever heard of condoms?”
“You’re going to have it removed, aren’t you?”
“Do you realize that if you keep the baby you will waste your life?”
“But no one – really no one – asked me how I was. How I felt. What I needed. Whether I had nausea, fatigue. My parents, people in the community, teachers, friends: everyone was talking about me. Not with me. “
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