RANDO | TENSION

Pregnant and Hopeless

The Intended Consequence of DeSantis’ Abortion Policy

My submission to Agency Magazine’s Rando #28. As soon as she walked in, she felt the tension.

Maggie had been walking around the neighborhood for two hours, thinking furiously. “What the fuck am I going to do?”, she wondered. She knew that having a child at 18 was not smart. She was still in high school. What chance would she have to make a life for herself if she was unmarried and tied down with a baby? She had plans to go to college after she graduated in a few weeks. Get a degree. Make a career for herself.

But an abortion was problematic. It was Florida, that shithead DeSantis had made Florida one of the most regressive states in the country for abortions. Six weeks from your last period, and minimal allowance for rape or incest. And she was sure she was more than six weeks gone, it took her a while to realize she was late. How could she afford to go out of state? Would the abortion pill still work? And of course, her Catholic mother would disapprove. But her mother’s disapproval, she could deal with.

Finally, she entered the house, hoping to sneak into her bedroom. But as soon as she walked in, she felt the tension.

“I was cleaning your bathroom,” said her mother. “And I found this.”

She produced the pregnancy test. The one she had peed on earlier that morning. The one that had turned blue. The one that had ended her hopes and dreams.

“So who is the father? Not that idiot Jimmy I hope? And I pray it’s not that black guy Cary I’ve seen you hang around with. I don’t want some mixed-race bastard as my grandchild.”

“It’s not either of them,” said Maggie.

“Well, whose is it?”

“I don’t want to say,” said Maggie.

How could she tell her mother that her stepfather had impregnated her the day she turned 18? How could she tell her mother how he had told her he intended to put a baby in her womb as he thrust his unprotected cock into her virgin pussy and flooded her womb with his seed? The pussy he had deflowered without a care in the world for his stepdaughter’s future. The pussy he had claimed as his…