youth testify member shares their abortion story.

youth testify member shares their abortion story.

i’m sharing my story in light of the new abortion laws in ohio and alabama.
i’m a cancer survivor. i received a life saving surgery in june 2016 that put my cancer into remission. not only 4 months later, i found out i was pregnant.

youth testify member shares their abortion story.

these photos embody the ways i am gentle with myself and attune to my own healing and growth after my abortion. i have found ways to reclaim my power, my agency, and i feel inspired to help others do the same.

this high school graduation photograph reminds me how young i was when i arranged for and survived a ‘back-alley,’ illegal abortion three years before the roe v. wade ruling. holding this photograph now, nearly 50 years later, i think about the other women who weren’t so lucky back then and the people now who continue to be denied access to abortion services in some areas of our country.