An Unintended Teenage Pregnancy: Sunni's other story

Today's episode features a difficult but important story. It’s the kind of story we avoid in part because it involves difficult emotional topics—sexual assault and unintended teenage pregnancy—topics that society does not handle gracefully. My guest today was sexually assaulted by her partner as a teenager, and carried this unintended pregnancy to term, at which point she put the baby up for adoption.  More than two decades have passed since these events transpired, but we talk about how every element of this challenging situation has impacted my guest's life, and continues to affect her deeply, and likely always will. Now that Roe v Wade is under such direct threat, and there are calls for women to "just carry out the pregnancy and put the baby up for adoption", what all this does to the woman forced to undergo this experience is more often buried than shared. I am grateful to my guest today for sharing her story.