Hineinu. “Here we are.”
To the 12 year-old girl who was raped and is pregnant. Hineinu.
To the expecting parents who heard silence instead of a heartbeat on the sonogram. Hineinu.
To the couple and their surrogate, who after months and months of IVF became pregnant with quadruplets … and they needed to make the painful decision to reduce. Hineinu.
To the woman who is carrying her brother’s seed following incest. Hineinu.
To the pregnant mother of seven children who can barely put food on the table and must decide which child won’t get breakfast today. Hineinu.
To those who care about their right to chose. Hineinu.
And to the mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, sisters, brothers …. To all the loving people who truly believe in freedom.
Heneinu, Hineinu, Hineinu.
We are here. We stand with you. We hold you. We embrace you. At this moment, or at any moment in time, you are not alone, because reproductive freedom is a human right, and we stand as one.
Together, we embrace love and shalom,
