Arkansas based Monica Potts’ in TheAtlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/the-forgotten-girls-monica-potts-book-excerpt/673581/

struck a chord w me:
I KNEW that smart girl who had a kid as a kid & got stuck.

(Pre)-Teen Pregnancy was an ever present threat in my hometown Midland, #Texas, too. My freshman year in highschool, there were 900+ kids, but I think only 520 graduated. Wonder why.

#BirthControl, #contraception, & #abortion were such taboo topics, its still hard for me to speak of them comfortably in spite of having spent ½ my life in NYC.

The smallest access to #BirthControl, illegal #abortion, #FertilityRate 1,46 (child per woman), how do #Polish #heterosexual couples do at the end of the day?

#fertility #Poland #Europe #contraception