Dear Elect President Trump...

Subject: Dear Elect President Trump...
From: A Girl
Date: 16 Nov 2016

I don't know you personally, but I'm sure you want to make the decisions for our country that will help us excel. I hope you are able to be the president that half of this country doesn't expect you to be. I know you've said things in the past about how you plan on making America great again, I just don't know if those methods will work. The problem that is concerning me now, is more of a personal matter. And what's really taking me by storm, is that this personal matter concerns you.

I lost my virginity when I was raped by a friend in his car one night. I was put in a very vulnerable position that night and my man friend took advantage of it. I was no longer his friend, or every a person, I became an object. It was hard enough to deal with that initial situation, accepting what happened, and being afraid to tell people that would say I'm lying or that I actually wanted it. But after my first missed period, I realized this wasn't over. I was scared, frightened even. I didn't want to tell my family, who was dealing with enough at the time, so I went to a doctor at Planned Parenthood. She was the only one that knew about what happened for a while. I told her what happened she comforted me and gave me options. I could either follow through with a pregnancy I never wanted and could not handle, or because I was so early along, I could end it by taking a pill that would cause me to miscarry. I took the pill and in doing so I felt a great deal of relief. It gave me a chance to finish high school, and to open up to my family and friends about the situation.

Now that you are going to be president, you can't lead the people by "grabbing women by the p****". Women are not trophy pieces or objects. I grew up before I was ready. A part of me, was taken by someone who did just that. I was a girl, but now I am a victim. And if you were president, informing the rules you want to put in place, I would have been enslaved by my rapist. You would have been supporting him, and punishing me because I was born with a vagina. A pregnancy is a very personal experience for a women. Women all across the country need things in place to feel in control when someone takes that away from them. I am a citizen in the United States of America, and I deserve protection, and privacy in these situations. Do not tell a woman what to do with her reproductive organs. And certainly do not grab her by them.

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