Letters from Women on Unplanned Pregnancies is a social media project aimed at personalizing the often unplanned and/or unwanted experience of pregnancy in such a way to promote social awareness on the matter. This is project composed of letters from real women with very different lives, dreams, and circumstances, but they all share one thing: they have all experienced the extremely difficult position of dealing with the pressures of an unplanned or unwanted pregnancies. So many social, educational, economical, and moral challenges complicate this subject, and our often not thoroughly addressed. This project intends to create an open and honest environment of discussion starting directly from the words and stories of women who have before experienced such a life altering event. Such topics that may be addressed are:
- The social, economic, and educational pressures of the pregnancy
- Personal views about abortion before and after the pregnancy
- How social and religious values influenced one's views of abortion and/or pregnancy The role of one's family and/or environment throughout the pregnancy What choice the woman made about her pregnancy: abortion, adoption, or raising the child herself and the effects of that choice
- One's own ability to access contraception and healthy sexuality counseling before the pregnancy, and the ability to access adequate information about abortion, adoption, and/or motherhood counseling after the pregnancy
- In the woman's opinion- what steps society, lawmakers, and families can take to better help women currently, or who in the future will be, in this position
For now, the posts are currently under the home page with the tag "Letters from Women on Unplanned Pregnancies" and will appear my letter number.
