The shock of what occurred on Friday has wounded, scared, even traumatized many of us.  For some of us, it has reactivated triggers of horrible abuses, called into question if some of us can even get specific kinds of birth control and other basic needs for a healthy female body.   With what has happened it is normal to feel anger, deep sadness, numb, frozen, irate, hopeless, devalued, dehumanized, because this decision does just that.  It dehumanizes the each and every woman here.   Each of you has your own medicine to bring to this Earth, to the humans here.  Some of you may know what it is and others may have no idea yet. Each woman holds within them the most creative power ever known to man.  That is the power to create life regardless of if you choose to or not, or if you medically can or not.  That Source, the womb, is sacred.  We are sacred.  

 Any act of forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy to term after she has been raped or sexually assaulted is an evil towards humanity that demonstrates  no understanding the soul murder that occurs with rape and sexual trauma.  It is abuse upon abuse.  It is not only life altering, but forcing a woman to have living triggers every day prohibiting so many levels of healing.    Furthermore, in the case of a child being born, the fetus constantly receives the biological festering of the trauma through the woman's body.  This alters the DNA, spikes hormonal responses and the forms a nervous system within the system of the fetus that will also be wired with a more complicated, heightened and aroused system, hyper reactive, more prone to anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, attention deficit.  The fetus is incubated in trauma responses from the body of the mother.  This creates intergenerational trauma.  The laws of these states that force women who have endured the evil of rape, incest, sexual assault to carry a pregnancy to term forces the creation of intergenerational trauma that will, without fail, impact the child that is born in negative ways, often displayed as emotional and behavioral issues.  It is abusive to both the woman and the child and shows a complete lack of education and understanding of psychological and biological processes. We are here to reclaim what is sacred.  We will not be silenced.

 -Jessica Waters, PhD, CRADC, ADDC, MARS, MPS,  ICADC, QAP, QMHP-R, CCTSA, CCTFP, CCTS, CGCS, CMHIMP, RYT-200, CYT-500, AYT