Kevin had been in a relationship with his girlfriend for two and a half years when they found out she was pregnant. He loved her but did not feel like either of them were prepared to have a child. As they were sitting together in his basement discussing what to do with the pregnancy, his emotions were heavy.
“I am overwhelmed, I am telling myself that I have to support her decision,” Kevin said, recalling the scene. Not wanting to pressure her into any particular choice, he told her he would be supportive if she wanted to have the baby. “I want her to have bodily autonomy. I wanted her to think about it. I told her that.”
Admittedly, Kevin was scared about the prospect of being a father. “I wondered about all the practicalities, the life change that would happen in nine months and what I would have to do to prepare for the birth of my first child,” he said.
Kevin, whose name has been changed, expressed his anxieties about their financial and career status. Despite his statedly neutral position, Kevin did not want to have the baby. “I felt I wanted her to go through with it,” he said. “The abortion.”
Originally Published in The Dispatch – Read the Article Here
Author: Liam Siegler