(Middle East Eye) Fatima* remembers every painstaking detail as if it were yesterday.
Her parents had gone out for dinner and she stayed at home with her uncle. She was wearing purple pyjamas under her abaya. Her T-shirt had a small hole near the collar.
She had never imagined that someone in her family could betray her. In the few hours that her parents were gone, she was raped.
Fatima soon found out she was pregnant. Without the support of her immediate family, she left home and eventually met a woman at a mosque in Connecticut that offered to help. A week later, she had an abortion.
Speaking to Middle East Eye, she says she doesn’t know how she would have coped if she had been forced to keep the baby. But now, women across the US might have to face that exact reality.
