‘What about my life?’: twelve-year-old speaks out against West Virginia abortion ban

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Addison Gardner, 12, has testified in West Virginia’s legislature in opposition to the state’s new abortion law, which would ban abortions even in cases of rape or incest. The middle schooler asked lawmakers: ‘If a man decides that I’m an object, and does unspeakable, tragic things to me, am I, a child, supposed to carry and birth another child?’

She then urged the legislature to reconsider, saying: ‘Some here say they are pro-life. What about my life? Does my life not matter to you?’

Rita Ray, an 80-year -old woman who had an abortion in 1959, 14 years before terminations were deemed a constitutional right, looked on as Gardner spoke

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