"He said abortion medication 'is frequently abused and is a risk to the health of citizens.' "

My older sister was addicted to abortion medication. I didn't want to try it, but when I was eleven her boyfriend gave me a beer and then when I got a headache she told me the abortion pill was ibuprofen. OMG that whole night changed my life. They were laughing and laughing at me, telling me that I'd just had my first abortion, and I hated them for it and felt completely miserable but also kinda curious, like, "Oh, this is what it feels like to have an abortion?" I felt… I mean, I was angry and hurt and humiliated, but I also felt just a little bit more grown up. So three days later I snuck into her room and stole like half her stash of abortion medication and that was it. I was on an abortion bender for probably like a week. And that was just my first one. Before you knew it, I was aborting everything. Fourth of July was these beautiful multicoloured sparklers and abortion. My twelfth birthday was yellow cake with chocolate frosting and abortion. I won the spelling bee and my mom bought me a milkshake and ordered pizza but I just stayed in my room all night doing abortion and sucking down that vanilla beast -- way too thick for that straw.

It was two decades and three stints in rehab before I could finally have some friends over for a game of Settlers of Catan without everyone hittin the Mif. Even today I can't watch softball games. It's just too triggering. I always feel like my control is just about to slip when I watch a strong-shouldered dyke wind up for fast pitch.