Conversations With My Daughters

I remember sitting in the car post-school pick-up blasting Beyoncé’s “Run the World (girls)” with my two daughters in the backseat (ages 7 and 9) when the news came in that Roe vs Wade was being overturned in America.

The shock and disbelief that this protected right, this tenuous but really - in my mind - immutable choice was taken away - made me scream in heartbreak and rage.

I couldn’t help it and in front of my girls, I burst into floods of tears. My daughters, concerned asked me what was wrong, and I told them in vague terms that

Once composed, I started thinking about how the conversation I had with my children would have been quite different if I were living inAmerica.

I realised that for most of my American friends, the conversations they would be having with their daughters regarding women’s rights would be more in-depth, the news their children would be seeing for weeks on end, conversations in classrooms, heavy in the air would last because the law, well it was going to last.