As a pre-med major in college, you become more informed about what happens to the body and how things actually work. You educate yourself and become aware of your health and that the only choice that matters is yours and yours only.

However, the country's current government is trying to take those rights away from us with a complete banning of abortions nationwide. It feels like we're seeing the beginnings of The Handmaid's Tale. We've already seen the shutdown of Planned Parenthood Facilities the last year and a half. Now they're coming for women's right to choose.

The southern states, including my home state of Georgia, are making abortions illegal. The Heartbeat Bill bans abortions after six weeks after gestation. It doesn't exclude cases of rape, incest, or health risks to the mother. Now if you took sex education, a heartbeat isn't detectable until the 6th week of pregnancy. Women don't even know they're pregnant until the near end of their first trimester.

In Alabama, abortions are being banned altogether and birth control is being taken off of insurance coverage plans. Even Arkansas is proposing a bill to give a rapist the right to sue their victim for having an abortion. The punishments for abortions are even extreme. Even getting an abortion can get you up to twenty years in prison. A miscarriage can be considered "conspiracy to murder". Hearing all of this made me ask who would decide this?

All these decisions and policies are being made by old men. No women, no people of color, no voice of reason or sanity. None of them have no education on female anatomy or consider what will happen to the woman. Why is this happening? There's a national birth shortage in this country, the worst it's been in 32 years. Because infertility is rising and it's gotten costly to have children, the birth rate has gotten lower and lower. What the government is doing is to keep the population going at any costs.

The bills have to go to the house and Senate and if approved, will go into effect next year. This can not be the world we live in, it can't be the world we bring our daughters into. Whether you're pro-choice or pro-life, you can't agree with this mess of a national policy being drafted right now. We have the right to free speech, they can't take that. They can't take away the rights of millions of women to keep the country occupied.

So if you don't have a uterus, you aren't allowed to make choices for my body.