I’ve noticed that even when women don’t feel any regret over getting an abortion there’s pressure on them to say they do because we wouldn’t want anti-choicers to insinuate we’re pro-choice because we don’t value life.My problem with this is that by toeing that line we’ve actually undermined our position.

I’m so glad that your grandmother shared her experiences. We’ve forgotten so readily how common abortion used to be, just another form of BC before reliable forms hit the market. There’s no reason to feel shame. 

It will most likely be cross-posted to The Root in due time, when someone with posting privileges shares it. The real question is why Jezebel’s first and only contribution to JezeRoot Pride Month appears the day after Pride Month concluded.

least 10% of pregnancies end spontaneously without the woman even being aware anything happened but if she wants to end one instead of nature/God/fate

It’s really not up to any of us to tell another person how to feel/react after having an abortion. Every person’s experience is different.

Right? This is something that is grossly overlooked. I’m hearing but my uncle and cousin are deaf. I’m using CC more as I get older because I’m noticing a hearing loss. The difference between what is said and what the captions say is appalling.

You having complicated feelings about your abortion literally has nothing to do with other women who don’t. Women who have abortions are expected to feel ashamed afterward so this, encouraging women to feel unashamed, is not only unequivocally a good thing, but it’s also incredibly rare. If you want to feel…

LGBTQ teens are more likely to become pregnant than their straight peers, for a variety of reasons. This is an LGBTQ issue, especially for LGBTQ youth.

Sorry to sound naive, but isn’t it obvious why abortion rights and queer rights haven’t intersected more? Because, um, don’t a lot of queer people, um, *not* have to worry so much about abortion? I don’t mean NEVER, but, you know, LESS?

I don’t think I have ever seen this comment here. Brilliant and Thank You nancy.

I promised I wouldn’t read the news this weekend, yet here I am. I was so upset when I heard the news about Kennedy.

Where are the captions for your deaf and hard of hearing viewers? I would think Jezebel would be a bit more sensitive in making sure its website is accessible to those with disabilities.

Part of me is proud she is fighting the good fight; part of me cringes at her “thank God for abortions” and “have 20 abortions...we’ll throw a party”. No one person has the same experience when they have an abortion, but mine was not a party. It was relief, yes, but also pain and regret and naivity. Regret that I…

I mean...It happens to women all the time. ALL THE TIME.
I’m glad this is making you shocked, so maybe you see it in a new light but....
Uh yeah, Terry Crews is getting treated the way women get treated by so many men when they do what Crews is doing.

And misogynists. Rape and sexual assault happen to bitches, not real men. So if a man gets raped or sexually assaulted, it just proves he’s a bitch. Never mind that Terry Crews could take them apart with both hands tied behind his back.

I liked Terry Crews before this story, and adore him now. I saw an interview with him, and he explained he felt a need to come forward, because if he wasn't willing to, how can he expect his wife or daughters to?

men firmly entrenched in toxic masculinity, that’s who. because men who have been sexually assaulted (mind you this is 1 in 6, https://1in6.org), or rather, men who admit to being sexually assaulted are “pussies” who should have put a beatdown on that. 

You can get a good idea of how Hollywood still works in the fact that Terry Crews won’t be in the next Expendables sequel (he appeared in the previous ones) because he refused to drop his civil suit against his harasser.

Nothing shocking or outrageous about Crews being shamed by the same gender that is guilty of sexually harassing women and calling it flirting. They keep gay sex on the DL because they are ashamed. Of course they’re going to deride another black dude for talking about his abuse. Shit doesn’t change overnight, but we…

Confirms my love of Terry Crews and Thandie Newton.