Before February, Jaci Statton wasn’t particularly focused on Oklahoma’s abortion bans. “I was like, ‘Well, that’s not going to affect me. I won’t ever need one,’ ” she says.
She’s 25 and lives in central Oklahoma with her husband, Dustin, and their three kids — two 7-year-olds and an 8-year-old. They are a blended family with two kids from Jaci’s previous marriage and one from Dustin’s.
“And I have two dogs — I gotta throw that in there, too,” she laughs. She’s a stay-at-home mom, and Dustin is an oil field technician. They also have a fishing guide business — she says she and her family go fishing every day.
Six weeks: Picking out baby names
Jaci and Dustin were using birth control but took an “if it happens, it happens” attitude towards pregnancy, she says.
Then, in mid-February, she started to feel really sick — nauseous and dizzy and weak. The first few pregnancy tests came back negative, but after several trips to the hospital, a blood test confirmed it: She was pregnant.
“We got excited — picked out baby names, bought baby stuff,” she says.
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