As many of us thought (and feared) would happen, Roe v Wade was overruled, and abortion is no longer a constitutional right in the United States. Living in Texas, most of you can guess what our state governor thinks about that… although the current law, and trigger laws, still allow me to get an abortion if I get pregnant again — another pregnancy would risk “the life of the mother”, or my life, since my epilepsy is now that severe and I have periods in which I go apneic during my sleep for as little as a few seconds or as long as thirty to forty-five seconds (waking up from that is not fun because it feels like I’ve just got done running a sprint). If I get pregnant again and attempt to stay pregnant, the chances of me dying in my sleep from a nocturnal seizure are more than 30%… and I mean, they were never low to begin with, but research into nocturnal epilepsy as it relates to pregnancy has indicated that the two do not bode well together and it’s not something that I am ever going to attempt to chance. I think I’m going to discuss sterilization with my OB/GYN at my next Depo-Provera appointment and see what, if anything, I have to do to get the ball rolling on getting my tubes tied — the thing that was holding me back on that was, and is, the fact that I am immunosuppressed from the prednisone usage that I am still trying to stop, and no one wants to risk a keyhole infection that is likely going to be Staph. However, with the political climate, that risk is acceptable.

So many Republicans in this state are already chastising women about how they should “make better decisions” and “have self-control”, and it makes me so badly want to mention something here in this blog that some of you already know about, but I’ll get to that in time. (Let’s just say that I check my tracker.)