Lindy West on "Shout Your Abortion"

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🗓️ 2 September 2021

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From November 2018, Lindy West discusses "Shout Your Abortion," a book based on the 2015 movement of people sharing their abortion experiences and using truth to fight anti-choice rhetoric.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.5	BAM!
0:03.5	Welcome to the show.
0:05.5	Thank you for having me.
0:07.5	This is a book that was based around a movement.
0:10.2	I remember this trending online.
0:11.8	I remember the debate that this started.
0:13.8	Shout your abortion.
0:15.8	It immediately jaws a lot of people, but what is this movement all about?
0:20.0	Uh, so it started in 2015, um, when I don't know if you remember, but, um, the Planned
0:26.8	Parenthood sells baby parts videos.
0:28.5	Yes.
0:29.5	Big hit.
0:30.5	Um, and my friends and I were perturbed and, um, trying to figure out, is there something
0:36.9	that we can do?
0:37.9	Is there some way that we can counteract this, like, crazy nonsense?
0:43.5	And my friend Amelia went on Facebook kind of spontaneously and wrote a beautiful post that
0:48.1	said, I had an abortion at Planned Parenthood and it was an overwhelmingly positive experience.
0:52.8	Right.
0:53.8	I felt nothing but relief.
0:54.8	Um, and I'm a good person and my abortion made me happy.
0:59.2	And so I took that, I spring grabbed it and I threw it on Twitter and I added shout
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