Agreed. Jane the Virgin did a pretty low key portrayal as well. I appreciated that one as well.

Even coming from a pro-choice community, you really don’t know how absolutely 100% ok with it you are until the moment you realize you might need one yourself.

Yeah, it’s something I’ve never forgotten. They knew exactly how to make lonely, introverted kids angry and “believers.”

Yes! My mother had an abortion. She says the hardest part of it was getting it in the first place. She was relieved and it’s not a big deal to her. But she has felt strong pressure to be upset. It’s bullshit. 

I’ll try to find it. Unfortunately I can’t remember if it was a standalone article or just part of a larger one (which is what I suspect and what is making it hard to find). I’ll let you know if I find it.

OMG I want to read that article!!!

Right?

Every person I know who has had an abortion has been perfectly happy with the decision.

And the research doesn't support that. Most women are relieved not sad

In a comment section on Instagram recently I saw a woman claiming that abortions were a recent thing and a sign of the evil in the world.

I wish I could find it again, but I read an article recently calling this out. Portraying abortions as emotionally fraught, difficult decisions just contributes to the narrative they want to send about abortions being something they need to “protect” women from.

I used to be ashamed of that story. Now I scream it from the rooftops with every chance I get, because the horrified looks I get are essential to reworking their understanding of what unwanted pregnancies do to women.

In my time in a cult church, I had a late period after fooling around with a guy and I thought to myself “I would absolutely get a secret abortion rather than go through the shame of a pregnancy out of wedlock (and that I couldn’t financially support).” And then I realized that I was pro-choice.

I didn’t end up getting an abortion - I miscarried before I had the chance - but the only thing that made the decision hard was the hoops I needed to jump through and the strangers I had to encounter that would ask me if I was sure - including my boyfriend who also didn’t want me to be responsible for a child but…

What your pastor said about kids not having a best friend because they were aborted is so fucked up. I was raised in a super conservative church as well but your pastor takes the cake!

I hate this narrative, too. I can think of a handful of my friends who have had abortions and been happy to have them. Not “let’s throw a party” happy. But relieved and fully confident they were making the right choice for themselves. The stereotype of the weepy, conflicted woman on her way to/from the abortion clinic…

I’m currently annoyed with people who talk about abortion like there’s only one way to experience it and if you weren’t sad or crying then you’re a monster. It piles on even more stigma to an already highly stigmatized thing and implies that only people who are very sad and somber are deserving of the service. Over…

Wow, I had a very similar experience as you. I was raised very conservative and was taught abortion was murder, etc. I once had a pastor tell us some of us didn’t have best friends because they had been aborted. I believed it all. In college I had a pregnancy scare, and my immediate thought was, I need an abortion.…

Any appeal to empathy directed at the right is a waste of time. I don’t feel that sharing these stories is a waste of time, but expecting the right to grow a sense of empathy over it is.

I haven’t had an abortion, but as someone who was brainwashed into pro-life politics as a child, when I thought I was pregnant (despite not yet having had PIV sex, thanks for nothing health teachers) in college I started researching what kind of homeopathic remedies, from herbs to “throwing myself down stairs without…