I thought the entire time, I would get pregnant and that this would all be over. No one warned me that this is not a fight for the weak and that it lasts a lifetime. I was never this tough. If I knew then, what I know now, I might have never started this fight. …
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On the fourth day of Kwanzaa my people gave to me…outstanding fertility resources created by African Americans! Take a peek, and be sure to add any you may have.
As I thought about the Kwanzaa holiday itself, I started to realize that every principle in Kwanzaa’s Nguzo Saba can be applied effortlessly to my thoughts and plans about infertility. Every day this week, The Egg is going to show you how.
And I was honored. To represent you, him or her, and whomever else.
But there was also a part of me that just kept thinking,
“Is this what I want to be known for? Do I really want to make my mark based on the fact that my body doesn’t do what its supposed to do?” I mean, I’m so much more than my ovaries, aren’t I?
Planned Parenthood is not our enemy here. Nor is the African American womb. Our enemy is the lack of education and resources. Our enemy is a misrepresentation of the idea behind Reproductive Justice. Our enemy is a political machine that is willingly allowing millions to fall by the wayside in a false effort to “save” children that they are proving they won’t adequately support once their born, anyway.
“First, a woman does not give away her baby. She is making a brave and courageous decision to give her child a life that she is unable to give.” Chala Barrington-Cruz of Adoption Consultants of Florida exposes the myths and stigmas attached to African American adoption.
