'We always want better for children but we don’t dare to want better for the women who birth them.'
the termination of her second pregnancy by the Salvadoran Supreme Court, despite doctors’ claim that her pregnancy was potentially fatal because she also had lupus and that the fetus itself was unviable.
The impact of discussing abortion with women who face prison time for an accidental miscarriage in their home countries was not lost on me. Especially since we were having that discussion in a place where many women are jailed for seeking a better life for their children. These women are fundamentally excluded from the pro-choice conversation. I imagined my first conversation about abortion, my firstconversation about abortion, to be with a friend. One my age, who perhaps did not have a partner, and certainly did not already have a child. The reality is that in the United States,of women who seek abortions are already mothers.
The conversation around immigrant women in the U.S. so often returns to motherhood. “They came here for their children” we hear in one ear, “anchor babies” in another. This is the context with which I sat down with each mother to discuss their options. The net of advocacy in place for families seeking asylum can fail to recognize these women as valuable and worthwhile in their own right. We see it all the time in the way news articles cover immigration detention. The emphasis always on the mothers and their children: the family. In doing so, we police the immigrant family. The mothers are reduced to just that: mothers. Fundamentally, however, they are women and deserve to be taken care of and to take care of themselves.
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