Pregnant at 16

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This episode contains strong language and descriptions of an abortion. With the end of Roe v. Wade, Louisiana has become one of the most difficult places in the United States to get an abortion. The barriers are expected to disproportionately affect Black women, the largest group to get abortions in the state. Today, we speak to Tara Wicker and Lakeesha Harris, two women in Louisiana whose lives led them to very different positions in the fight over abortion access.

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0:00.0	I dated the same person in high school my whole time.
0:05.0	So I was at public school and it was during that time that I met my boyfriend and there
0:12.7	were two 16 year olds in the house together and started having sex with him and you know
0:19.9	by the time I was 16 I was pregnant.
0:22.2	At 16 years old for the first time in my life I had sex and the baby first time I had sex
0:26.8	I got pregnant.
0:33.2	And how did you sort of discover that you were pregnant?
0:37.8	I was sick.
0:39.0	I was sick for like I want to say two weeks.
0:43.2	I just remember being very very sick.
0:46.0	Like I had a really excruciating pain on my side to the point that I was walking down
0:52.0	the hallway at school and I was bolted over I couldn't move.
0:56.7	And my mom thought it was the flu and I thought it was the flu.
1:01.8	She was like this is going on a third week and you're really sick.
1:06.8	I'm going to take you to the doctor because I thought that this would pass.
1:11.6	It's all called my sister and I said something is terribly wrong and so she picked me up from
1:16.4	school, took me to the doctor.
1:20.2	I think my mother had an inkling by that time that it wasn't the flu but I didn't you
1:28.5	know I had no idea.
1:30.4	I wasn't thinking about being pregnant.
1:33.1	And they did the pregnancy test and sure enough that's what you found out that I was pregnant.
1:37.0	But I was.
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