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Fear of pregnancy: One teen’s story in post-Roe America

“I don’t think that it was ever expected that I would want birth control,” Juliet explains. “I just didn’t want to have to be so worried about – if I ever did get raped, which I hope it doesn’t happen, but if it ever does happen and I wasn’t on birth control, there would be a chance that I would have to keep the baby.”

“I feel, after everything happened,” she explains – with Roe v. Wade overturned and the six-week ban taking effect – “I just wanted to be a little in control.”

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