Jill Biden Instagram – Last week, I had the honor of joining the young woman in this photo at a rally in Pennsylvania. Her name is Hadley Duvall. This is her story:
“Nearly two years ago today, a monumental and deeply unsettling shift occurred in our nation’s legal landscape: the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. That news – that millions of women had been stripped of their rights all in one moment – felt personal.
I’m from Kentucky where – because of Donald Trump – an extreme abortion ban is now in place with no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. And as I saw posts online celebrating the fall of Roe, I went back to a place I had been trying so hard to forget. Back to the time when I was 12 years old and holding a positive pregnancy test in my hand. I was impregnated from being raped by my step-father at the time. And the first thing he said to me was “You have options.”
I was too young to really understand what was happening to me. But, hearing that there were options, was the only thing that I could hold onto.Unfortunately, girls who are currently living that nightmare, have nothing. Not even options….
I stand before you today, age twenty-two. I just graduated from college, the first in my family to do so. I was a college athlete. And I will continue my education striving for a Masters Degree in Social Work. I am truly living a life I used to pray for. And I am able to do that because I had my options.
It took time to find my voice, and even now, it’s not easy to share my story. To do it alongside the First Lady is unbelievable. But it’s never been more important to do so. That’s because the stakes of this election could not be higher – for our choices. For our lives. For our futures. For YOUR future.” | Posted on 02/Jul/2024 06:26:48
