Kate shakes her head, and her long, sun-streaked brown hair, piled high in a messy bun, shivers. “That's so bad, and I don't mean it,” she quickly adds.
She's exhausted; shadowy crescents frame her bright eyes. Just a few weeks ago, she graduated from the University of Mississippi. “My one goal, as pathetic as it sounds, was do not walk across that stage pregnant,” she says. “Everything I worked for…I'm going to remember graduating and being pregnant.” Kate has been trying to get an abortion since March. It's a Friday evening at the end of May, and she was just turned away from an Arkansas clinic, about 200 miles from home.
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