Two years ago, an abortion ban made them teen parents
Today on \u201cPost Reports,\u201d we follow up with Brooke and Billy High, two teenagers compelled into parenthood by the Texas abortion ban. Now, they\u2019re caring for their twin daughters in a new city \u2014 and trying their best to hold it all together.
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Last summer, The Post\u2019s abortion reporter Caroline Kitchener told the story of a teenager who wanted an abortion and ended up having twins because of the Texas abortion ban. The story \u2014 which \u201cPost Reports\u201d also covered \u2014 went viral.
\u201cThe fascinating thing about that story for me was that people read it in two completely different ways,\u201d Caroline Kitchener tells guest host Will Oremus. \u201cYou had antiabortion people saying, \u2018This is wonderful. There are two babies in the world. Their parents love them. They got married. He\u2019s joining the military,\u2019 \u2026 kind of holding them up as poster children for what an abortion ban can do. But on the other side, you had abortion rights advocates saying, \u2018This is a tragedy. She dropped out of school, this ambitious young woman; her life in so many ways is just so much more difficult.\u2019\u201d
In today's episode of \u201cPost Reports,\u201d Caroline catches up with Brooke and her now-husband Billy as the two 19 year-olds try to make marriage and parenthood work.