Abortion Rights Leader’s Pregnancy Surprises Opponents: ‘Is That Real?’
At one point, she says, she walked into a hearing on Capitol Hill and an antiabortion advocate looked at her swollen belly and asked, “Is that real?”
“As though I actually had strapped on a prosthetic baby bump to wear to a hearing for some reason,” recalls Hogue, who is due in early July. “It’s like, ‘What don’t you get about choice meaning choice?’ ”
And, she says, she’s gotten plenty of comments to the effect of, “ ’Now you know what it’s like, so there’s no way you can stay in your position and continue to do this work.’ As though as soon as you get pregnant, you abandon any previous sense that you had around a woman’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy.”… .
Her pregnancy, she says, “is amazing for me. Because it was my own decision to do it.”
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