Posted on Jun 23, 2022
Two sisters got pregnant young. Their choices and their secrets shaped their lives
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Marianne Sung lives in a small brick house in a sleepy town outside Nashville. It's quiet and quaint, surrounded by rolling hills, and she likes that cell phone coverage is spotty.
Marianne lives with her partner, two dogs, and two sons — Eli, age 11, and toddler Charlie. She says she feels at peace with her life, but admits she sometimes wonders about how it might have turned out differently — if she'd made a different decision, more than a decade ago.
"You know, had I known more, had I been able to talk to my parents, talk to my sister, I probably wouldn't have two kids right now," Marianne says.
Marianne got pregnant with her first son when she was 16 years old.
Her story is a familiar one in Tennessee, which ranks among the top 10 in the country for the number of teen pregnancies.
Marianne Sung lives in a small brick house in a sleepy town outside Nashville. It's quiet and quaint, surrounded by rolling hills, and she likes that cell phone coverage is spotty.
Marianne lives with her partner, two dogs, and two sons — Eli, age 11, and toddler Charlie. She says she feels at peace with her life, but admits she sometimes wonders about how it might have turned out differently — if she'd made a different decision, more than a decade ago.
"You know, had I known more, had I been able to talk to my parents, talk to my sister, I probably wouldn't have two kids right now," Marianne says.
Marianne got pregnant with her first son when she was 16 years old.
Her story is a familiar one in Tennessee, which ranks among the top 10 in the country for the number of teen pregnancies.
Two sisters got pregnant young. Their choices and their secrets shaped their lives
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SFC Terry Stinnett
PO1 Jeff Chandler as stated by someone who doesn't have ovaries & uterus & apparently thinks the 9th Amendment "unenumerated rights" for individuals should not include women
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PO1 Jeff Chandler several states have already instituted "trigger laws" that sharply curtail women's options immediately. Idaho will allow any "potential relative" including any member of a rapist's family to go after any woman (or girl) who tries to get an abortion of the "alleged rapist's" child.
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There are often devastating results from rape. There are also psychological costs to abortion. A difficult decision for both. These sisters who made different decisions in that situation can educate us on those costs
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The ripples of their decisions are lifelong -- every adult I know is living with the lifelong ramifications of a decision -
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