Holding hands on the changing table: an unimaginable scene for Lena Sommer two years ago
Image: picture-alliance/ ZB/Jörg Lange
The early pregnancy was tantamount to a loss of control over one’s own body. Our columnist didn’t want to have an abortion, but she didn’t want to be pregnant either. Two years later, the student’s view of her daughter is completely different.
“You can have an abortion too. Go here in the practice,” says the doctor while he pulls the copper coil out of my uterus. It’s December 23rd. I recently turned 21 years old. I am grateful for this offer, which supposedly wants to give me back control over my body, which has obviously completely lost control. How important it is to have this opportunity. But I don’t want to have an abortion. Only: not being pregnant either.
My mother also became pregnant with me unplanned. The story of how she decided to keep me and how happy and happy she is about this decision is one of the defining stories of my childhood. It was clear that abortion is okay, but having a baby is always better. Morally better, better for your own mental health.