and would set women back decades. and she s right. i mean, here s what the data tells us. in 2020, there was a landmark report called, the terminally study, turn away study. it was the first study to rigorously examine the lasting effects of an unwanted pregnancy on women s lives, giving us perhaps a first look at the reality of an america without abortion rights. those researchers found that women who were denied abortions or four times more likely to live in poverty. there were also three times more likely to be unemployed then women who were able to obtain an abortion. a follow-up study also found those same woman had lower credit scores. they had higher debt. they had an increased number of negative financial records, like bankruptcies, or even evictions. see, for one women s in america, pregnancy and motherhood comes at a grave economic price. and we tend to forget that. one thing tank found that it women s income could drop by 4%, every time she gives birth to or even
get surgery and physical therapy to enlist in the army. when i did after got home from afghanistan, is as one of its take surgery on my knee, i m just gonna walk it off. i ve done all my service in the army, without any doing anything about my knee. without that, my whole leg would ve been, mangled i would ve been able to use it. when i got, home i had the symptoms, and they gradually got worse and worse, but i always had a story to tell myself, about it wasn t ptsd, there was nothing i could do about, it or that it was getting better when it wasn t. i want to get worse, and worse, and worse. think about trauma, i learned in therapy, is it s not like wine, it doesn t age well. it s lot more like an avocado, no buddy builds out avocado sellers, they don t keep. you ve got to deal with it. and if you don t deal with, it is gonna get worse and worse. now, we have been seeing, unfortunately in this country, an uptick of mass shootings lately. it s likely that the families