Advocates fear Texas and Mississippi's recent abortion laws will disproportionately impact Black women, who already face higher rates of complications and death during pregnancy
Briana McLennan was 19 years old and at least eight weeks pregnant when she had to make a tough decision: get an abortion and continue with her plans of moving to Atlanta for college, or stay home in Texas and figure out a way to raise a baby with no job and no money.
McLennan decided to get the abortion with some funding help from the Texas Equal Access Fund. "I knew that I was not ready to go through with the pregnancy," McLennan said."I was still a child myself."McLennan, now 31, still believes she made the right choice. She was able to finish college, pursue her career goals and now has a job as a social worker for the Texas Equal Access Fund.
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