Rep. Cori Bush Shares She Had An Abortion After Rape As A Teen CoriBush
, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday. That hearing aimed to “examine the threat to abortion rights and access” currently unfolding in states like Texas, and Bush’s devastating experience provided the perfect example of why anti-abortion laws do irrevocable harm.
“The next thing I knew, he was on top of me, messing with my clothes, and not saying anything at all. ‘What is happening?’ I thought. I didn’t know what to do. I was frozen in shock, just laying there as his weight pressed down upon me. When he was done, he got up, he pulled up his pants, and without a word — he left. That was it,” she said. “I was confused, I was embarrassed, I was ashamed.
“I was 18. I was broke, and I felt so alone. I blamed myself for what had happened to me,” she shared. At that point, she was about 9 weeks pregnant — three weeks past the point when Texas’s restrictive new law would allow her to terminate the pregnancy today. “Choosing to have an abortion was the hardest decision I had ever made, but at 18 years old, I knew it was the right decision for me,” Bush explained, even though she said she was subjected to racism and shaming in the clinic where the procedure was done.
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