Category: Abortion stories

If letters to the editor can be divided into two broad categories, they are these: letters from readers simply sharing their opinion on something and letters from readers sharing their personal experience with the major story of the day. Clearly that major story today is abortion, with a leaked draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito […]

U.S. Representative Barbara Lee, Democrat of California, attends a press conference on the reintroduction of the ‘Women’s Health Protection Act’ at the House Triangle of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, May 23, 2019.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Five members of Congress shared their personal abortion stories in a video posted by Elle. “They’re all rooted in […]

PARIS — “Happening,” Audrey Diwan’s film about a clandestine abortion in 1960s France, is not for the faint-hearted. Indeed, spectators fainted during several screenings, notably at the Venice Film Festival last September, where it won the Golden Lion. “It’s often the men who say the experience pushed them to the limit of what they could […]

Almost 50 years have passed since the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe vs. Wade established the constitutional right to have an abortion in the United States. Today, millions of Americans face a potential future without this protection. It was reported on Monday that the Supreme Court has already voted privately to strike down Deer, by […]

People are sharing their abortion stories online, after learning that Roe v. Wade could be canceled. They share these stories in the hope that women will continue to have the right to abortion, they say. “This is the face of a woman who had an abortion,” wrote one TikToker in a video caption. Loading Something […]

Placeholder while loading article actions On Monday night, Ashley Winter was browsing Twitter admiring the Met Gala red carpet looks, she said, when she came across an alarming tweet: “This country just went back 50 years.” ” Moments later, Winter immersed herself in the explosive Politico story that immediately sent social media users into a […]

On Thursday, Sept. 30, Democratic lawmakers shared their personal abortion stories at a meeting of the House Reproductive Rights Oversight Committee. The hearing assessed Texas law SB8, which prohibits abortions after six weeks and allows private citizens to sue anyone accused of having one or helping someone obtain the procedure. The Supreme Court decided earlier […]

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be out of date. Please look at the timestamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On Thursday, three Democratic members of Congress offered deeply personal testimony about their own abortions as a congressional committee considered how to respond to […]

This is part two of a series about women and their experiences with abortion. Read the first part here. Nicole Dempsey remembers crying in a church pew while watching a video of a woman with long black hair and dark brown eyes. The woman was talking about her abortion and how a local organization called […]

Sign up for Patriarchy Week, a newsletter on feminism and sexism sent out every Saturday. #YouKnowMe: powerful but also deeply depressing It’s been another terrible week for reproductive rights in America: Alabama banned abortion and Missouri passed a bill banning abortion after eight weeks. Emboldened by Trump, the right has escalated its war on abortion, […]

An abortion rights supporter holds a sign during a rally outside the Supreme Court on March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) To subscribe to The nation Subscribe now for as low as $2 per month! Thank you for registering for The nationweekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more than The nationsee our latest […]

Look around your table tonight. Look at the family photos of the women you love: your mother, your grandmother, your sister, your daughter, your wife. Maybe one is a nurse or a teacher. Or an office worker, minister, veteran, Republican. It is likely that at least one had an abortion, but never said. Do you […]

Few topics are as controversial as abortion. However, despite all the headlines the issue makes, it’s still a topic that largely lacks a human narrative. HBO’s latest documentary changes that. By documenting life at the only remaining abortion clinic in Missouri, Abortion: Stories told by women puts a human face on both sides of a […]

The smartest thing Tragos does is refuse to stack the deck by portraying abortion opponents as hateful or deceived. As she captures protests and preaching outside the Hope Clinic, where a number of her subjects go for abortions, Tragos interviews a young activist, Reagan, regional coordinator of Students for Life, who describes harassment outside clinics […]

In 2014, Missouri passed a law requiring women to wait at least 72 hours between a first doctor’s appointment and an abortion. Today, Missouri is one of the toughest states in the country to get the procedure. This is great news for the anti-choices. But for Amie, a 30-year-old single mother featured in Tracy Droz’s […]

In April 2011, I began working with Rachel’s Vineyard post-abortion ministry. The ministry holds weekend retreats for men and women who have chosen or participated in abortion. Over the years I have witnessed many amazing transformations in the lives of retreatants. Not only that, I learned so much about faith, forgiveness and the pain that […]

With the growing emphasis on women’s personal experiences in pregnancy decisions, some advocates have begun calling 2014 “the year of abortion history.” It’s easy to see why. Reproductive rights activists have recently launched new organizations, held events on college campuses, and hosted the first-ever livestreamed abortion talk — all in an effort to give women […]