You Enter the Prison Industrial Complex

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You end up pregnant and in the Prison Industrial Complex, or the oppressive system in which capitalism and the “justice” system in the US work together.

You are incarcerated and pregnant in the City Jail, but are released when your pregnancy is past the second trimester. You are no longer eligible for an abortion in Virginia.

You are forced to continue your pregnancy.

You continue the pregnancy and develop postpartum depression. You go on to become an advocate for reproductive justice.