Your Abortion Stories
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
“Abortion is healthcare and abortion is a human right. Abortion is racial justice. It’s economic justice. It’s at the intersection of every movement towards liberation. My abortion was a gift.”
We asked you to share your abortion stories with us. Here they are.
Contribute to the National Network of Abortion Funds here:
https://abortionfunds.org/donate/
What to do if you need an abortion:
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion
If you need help paying for an abortion:
https://abortionfunds.org/need-abortion/
Shout Your Abortion is normalizing abortion and elevating safe paths to access, regardless of legality. SYA makes resources, campaigns, and media intended to arm existing activists, create new ones, and foster collective participation in abortion access all over the country.
https://shoutyourabortion.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to You Wrong About. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Sarah Marshall and today we have a very special episode about abortion. |
| 0:18.7 | This is a very different format from usual. |
| 0:21.5 | You're not going to hear very much from me. |
| 0:23.3 | Instead you're going to hear from each other. |
| 0:25.6 | We asked listeners to submit their abortion stories because it seems like a better time |
| 0:31.5 | than ever to talk about abortion. |
| 0:34.4 | One of the themes in so many of the stories that you sent in was that the abortion wasn't |
| 0:40.2 | traumatic. |
| 0:41.4 | The stigma around the abortion was traumatic. |
| 0:44.5 | And here at You Wrong About, we love abortion and we are, I guess we accept that trauma is |
| 0:50.9 | part of life, but we want to work on it. |
| 0:52.8 | We want to make that part better and figure out ways to lift some of it off our little |
| 0:59.7 | human hearts. |
| 1:01.7 | And big scary things are happening in the US, which is where we live. |
| 1:07.8 | Abortion access has been under continuous assault for basically as long as it's been |
| 1:12.7 | illegal right. |
| 1:14.1 | And now that law protects only about half the people in the country. |
| 1:19.9 | There's so much we can't do, but we can offer you a space to share your stories with each |
| 1:24.0 | other. |
| 1:25.3 | And so of the about six hours worth of stories that you sent in, we picked about 45 minutes |
| 1:32.3 | of them, not because they were unique in many cases, but because these stories, for everyone |
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