On Abortion ✑ It’s Time To End The Silence, Secrecy And Shame

Mona Eltahawy ✒ A few weeks before the pandemic began, I was in a crowded art gallery in New York City, where I live, for an exhibition called Abortion Is Normal. Hanging from the walls and ceilings of the gallery space were paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations that depicted abortion, from the abstract to the individual experience.The gallery was buzzing with an energy that New