I think current events are heightening my fear of pregnancy
Maybe my fear of something happening that would lead to that is irrational, but damn
Having parents that see stuff like that as "A gift from God" that someone has to make the most out of sure doesn't help lmao
Not sure if it helps at all, but I don’t think you are being irrational at all.
As someone who has been pregnant before, and plans to try and be pregnant again, it is really scary to me too.
There’s certain states in the US I definitely won’t be going to, because they just won’t be able to properly treat me if I become pregnant with a
wanted pregnancy, if something should go wrong (a woman in Texas had to be airlifted out of the state because she was having a miscarriage and it went badly, but the doctor’s didn’t know if it was legal to save her life - because the procedure is the same as an abortion. And they arrested a woman that had a late miscarriage, based on no actual existing law - just because they suspected her of having an abortion and so charged her under no law)
And pregnancy, in much of the US at least is extremely dangerous (we have a very high maternal mortality rate - 3x that of the UK for example, and worst among industrialized nations, and some states are much worse than the US on average) and can have a lot of detrimental health effects that last for life.
Sorry, I don’t mean to make it seem more scary. But this has turned into my what is bothering me. And this all is bothering me a lot lately too. (Yesterday politicians in multiple states even mentioned that banning plan b, birth control pills, or even condoms was also on the table. there have also been politicians saying they want to go from this to allowing states to once again ban gay marriage and interracial marriage). And I wonder if we will have to move to a new country to find a safe place to raise my daughter. I don’t want to leave my home, but I feel like I can’t risk my daughter and her future. And it is pretty scary.