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I came home one day over a year ago and told my parents that I was pregnant, I intended to have an abortion and preceded to do so but as a minor, I needed their legal consent to do so. They weren’t angry at me, largely because they knew I was responsible and already intended to do the ‘right thing’ for my future but it was also because of an utterly ridiculous reason that has stuck with me to this day –

They were angry at ‘him’. The guy who had got me pregnant because obviously a girl doesn’t have the initiative to go out and have unprotected sex, it must have been ‘his’ idea. And honestly, I was more shocked than anything else. There was no anger at me, no telling me I should’ve acted responsibly, no asking me why it had happened; just ‘Who is he?’ and ‘I’m going to kill him.’ while I stood completely blameless for my own actions.