Living in the US as a woman is a like being in a abusive relationship?

I've been feeling so hopeless the past week. My income is being slashed so I can afford health care that may or may not be available to me by the end of the month. I am at a loss for how anyone can assert that this is a "Christian nation" and still believe that healthcare is privilege. <br><br>And of course, the access to abortion is being taken away, and I have this sick feeling that birth control isn't that far behind. All of the progress we've made is being steadily undone.<br><br>I am so tired of fighting, and I am tired of having to justify my right to healthcare, my right to access to birth control so I don't have to worry about becoming a poor single mother. My right to make choices about my own body, in the country I was born in. <br><br>I feel like I am trapped in an abusive relationship. The government doesn't acknowledge that my rights are being violated. It refuses to protect me from my abuser. I feel like I am walking on eggshells, scared to breathe in a way that the government might consider offensive, and I am terrified of being injured because I can't afford to heal. <br><br>This country is a sociopath, because it refuses to admit that it is wrong. It doesn't see anything wrong with treating me this way, and it continues to tell me, "this isn't personal, this is just business." <br><br>I can't leave. I have no where else to go. I was born here, and I don't have the money to emigrate. So, I am stuck here, trying to survive, in the presence of a monster.