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My Morning After Epiphany

"Maybe I did want to get pregnant."

By Stacey Leung

I was worrying about birth control one day, and thinking about the morning after pill, when I was overcome with the sudden realization…maybe I did want to get pregnant.

I’m Stacey Leung with a commentary from Youth Radio.

I want a little girl. She’ll be smart and beautiful and everyone will absolutely adore her.

Having a baby right now would be the easy way out of a real future, the same way suicide is an easy escape from loneliness.

It scares me that I’m willing to give up everything I’ve worked so hard for, and that I’d want to live vicariously through someone else, who, as I later put more thought into this, I’d end up resenting.

Instead of a morning-after pill, I got a morning-after epiphany. When and if I do have a child, I want someone I love, not a window to what I could have become.

For Youth Radio, I’m Stacey Leung.