How far we've come and how far is left to go...
, a social media campaign started by activists Lindy West, Amelia Bonow and Kimberly Morrison in 2015 as a response to the proposed defunding of Planned Parenthood, has grown into a nonprofit similarly dedicated to fighting stigma. During the recent spate of six-week abortion bans in several states this year,became a space for people to share their abortion stories.
Women are entitled to their privacy. In a world in which the fate of their bodies is casually and carelessly used as a political tool or a weapon for cultural warfare or the site of actual physical violence, it's unsurprising they may want to keep their personal decisions to themselves. But keeping something relatively private and silencing yourself out of fear and shame are two different things.
"...[B]lack women aren't afforded the luxury, privilege or platform of just telling our abortion stories. Hell, we still trying to persuade folks that just being born makes us deserving of human rights." As with any difficult human experience, stigma leads to lack of information, disempowerment and may discourage people who need abortions from seeking them . Not everyone can or should share their personal stories on a public platform like Twitter. But taboos seek to erase the shared experience of being human and turn it into toxic secrets, and there are a few ways we can fight that destructive force.Cassie becomes unintentionally pregnant and chooses to have an abortion in the season finale.
Grassroots campaigns like Thank God For Abortion, Shout Your Abortion and You Know Me are examples of community building on a larger scale. But sometimes, the most revolutionary thing you can do is to communicate with the people around you. Opening up about an abortion is a difficult thing to do. But by sharing our stories with those close to us, and by accepting each other without judgment in those moments of radical vulnerability, we can begin to break the silence caused by this painful taboo.
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