LilCutePali

"Because I had had sex, someone thought I deserved to die."  (Cerullo qtd. in Hadley 79)    "She was bleeding at the wrong time, and it didn't stop.  She went to the emergency room here at a Catholic hospital, and they refused to take care of her.  They just flatly refused…they would not touch her because she might be pregnant, and they might disturb the child.  She continued to bleed." (Paley 8)   "I found out I was pregnant when I was fourteen.  I didn't get a period.  I talked to nobody.  I panicked.  I sat in hot baths.  I drank these strange concoctions girls told me about—something like Johnny Walker Red with a little bit of Clorox, a