“The majority of people who have abortions have at least one child at home ... So we will continue to talk about abortion in our home — openly, honestly, and without shame or stigma,” writes DCampoamor
Photo: Jan Mehrkens / EyeEm My oldest son has always shown an aptitude for math and science. He’s fascinated by the human body, too. At the tender age of 4 , my partner and I bought him a book detailing the ins and outs of human anatomy, and he’d more often than not fall asleep with it across his chest, open to some page on the cardiovascular system.
That’s the thing about abortion: It’s not difficult to comprehend, regardless of age. And like other concepts deemed “inappropriate” for children — be it consent, bodily autonomy, racism, gender, sexual identity — arguing that it’s not pertinent, or worse, somehow “harmful” to talk to kids about the commonality of abortion will not only allow abortion stigma to fester, but can leave our own children believing that their bodies are not their own.
“They told their first-grade teacher, ‘My mom’s job is becoming illegal this week,” she adds. “I wish I could have been there to see the teacher’s face.” For my partner and I, discussing abortion wasn’t just about teaching our two sons, now 7 and 2, important concepts like self-sovereignty and the reality that they’re never “owed” a birth, a baby, or a say in a pregnant person’s personal and medical decisions should they get someone pregnant.
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