Being raped and carrying a child didn’t stop me from finishing my master’s degree, and one other certification related to my field. I had to work around the morning sickness, dealt with the swollen ankles around evening each day, and the back pain. I think a woman who has an abortion, instead of carrying her baby to full term is in for a lifetime of mental health issues. Then again, every time I try to dna test my children, to prove that a relative raped me, I am threatened with being framed and locked up in either a ward, or jail, to stop me from gathering dna on them. Saliva. That’s all it would take. Two tubes of saliva and sending them to a lab to be tested. All less than $200. I still think my life would be worse without my children, though. I love them. I can’t imagine my life without having had them.