I Was Raped by My Father. An Abortion Saved My Life.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of a 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi that provides no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. What’s at stake in this case matters to the countless girls and women who have been raped — including those who, like me, were raped by a father, an uncle or another family member.

Read the full opinion piece by Michele Goodwin, professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, in The New York Times.