Vendor Writing: William B.

A Roe V. Wade Story

BY WILLIAM B, CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

My name is William. I met my first wife in Nashville. She came down to visit one of my brother’s girlfriends and we fell in love at first sight.

What happened is, we got married in the month of my birthday, November. I went up to Knoxville and asked her mom and dad if I could marry their daughter.

We came back to Nashville to live after that and my wife was working with my sister’s brother in law. He hired a man who ended up raping my wife one day at work. After it happened, I could tell something was wrong with her, but she wouldn’t tell me what. Finally she told me about the rape and I was hurt so bad. I had to go to the hospital because I injured myself because my wife was so hurt. I was put into the hospital so they could watch me.

When I got out of the hospital, a few months later my wife found out she was pregnant. I didn’t know if it was mine or his. I told her that I would raise the baby whether or not they were mine. She begged me to pay for an abortion. I loved her so much that I paid for the abortion. I went with her to that abortion clinic and cried my eyes out when she went in and when she came out.

This is a Roe v. Wade story. I don’t believe in abortion unless the child was a product of incest because I believe that babies can go to someone who will care and love for it. This will never leave my heart or mind. I do think the decision on what to do with a pregnancy should be left up to the mother of the baby. The father can’t feel the same pain.

But this caused a lot of problems for us. My wife started doing drugs. So, what happened is it kind of grew us apart. We got divorced in 1994, but we still lived together for two years after that because she needed financial support and I still loved her.

But then I got in trouble and went to prison. She said she wouldn’t come to see me when I was in prison, which I understood. When I got out, I went back and I tried to rekindle our love. We lived together, but we didn’t get remarried. We did have two kids before I went to prison though. I was hoping for twins because we both had twins in our family. But after that we did grow apart and we tried to live together but we couldn’t because I was out all night doing drugs. I got on crack cocaine because of my depression and stress. I was at the house while she was with a man for two days. I end up going to the hospital again because I told them I wanted to kill myself. When I got out, she came back home to me. I tried to rekindle the love again, but it didn’t happen. That abortion and the drug addiction really ruined things for us.

I’m hoping that this will be helpful to people out there. There’s people out there that need to know that things like this can happen. This Roe v Wade thing can be a bad thing for a lot of people. There’s people out there who can’t get abortions and want or need to get them. I do think people need to think about it real strongly before they think about doing something like that. God bless you all and thanks for listening.

I’ve been living in Nashville all of my life and I came off the bus a while ago and saw something going on around the state capitol. It was an abortion rally and I pulled in and told my Roe V. Wade story to some people who were there. I think they really appreciated it. So I wanted to tell it here too.