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A star of a reality show franchise recently spoke about undergoing an abortion as a teenager. Though she framed it as a positive event in her life, she also admitted it was traumatizing.<\/p>\n

Erin Lichy appears on “The Real Housewives of New York,” a show under the “Real Housewives” franchise. Inspired by the show “Desperate Housewives” from the early 2000s, the idea<\/a> was to show the lives of wealthy women who “lead glamorous lives in a picturesque Southern California gated community where the average home has a $1.6 million price tag and residents include CEOs and retired professional athletes.” The first show was “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” but there have since been numerous spin-offs in cities around the globe, including New York City, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Miami, Dubai, and others.<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with Glamour, Lichy said she had an abortion at 18 after just beginning college. \u201cI literally remember the feeling washing over me in my dorm bathroom, and I just lost it,\u201d she said. \u201cI was sitting on the floor for maybe an hour and a half hysterically crying, just like, \u2018What am I gonna do? Oh my God.\u2019 It was so terrifying to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lichy said she went to Planned Parenthood because she was too scared to tell her parents or her friends, though she said her boyfriend was supportive and the abortionist at Planned Parenthood was “kind.” Still, she said, just talking about the abortion “makes me emotional.”<\/p>\n

READ: Pressured towards abortion, she found support at a pregnancy center<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Though the article attempted to frame abortion as a positive, Lichy said the experience was “traumatizing” \u2014 so much so, that she never spoke to her boyfriend again. \u201cI couldn\u2019t,\u201d she said. \u201cSomething broke inside me, and I just didn\u2019t even want to have any connection to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She eventually did tell her mother about the abortion, and her mother told her that she, too, once had an abortion… a fact that Lichy gushed over. \u201cThe most beautiful part about it was that she said, \u2018It happened to me too,\u2019\u201d Lichy said. \u201cIt felt like women supporting women. Like, even though she\u2019s my mom she wanted me to know.\u2026 Everybody has a story. I would bet that most girls have a similar story, even if it\u2019s [about using] Plan B.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems incredibly odd that Lichy would find it “beautiful” to know that she had a sibling<\/a> whom her mother aborted. Regardless of how one may feel about abortion, there’s nothing to celebrate about a terrified teenage girl feeling that her only option is to have an abortion, rather than knowing she has the support and resources to raise her child without sacrificing her education or career.<\/p>\n

Call on President Trump to pardon the FACE Act prisoners on his first day in office.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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