Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

by Jessica Valenti

All abortions create something. Paths forward, lives lived, connections made. Some are hard, some are beautiful, but all are chosen. That’s what we lost when Roe was overturned: the ability to decide our own way in the world. What’s been taken from us is about more than our rights or our bodies. We’ve been robbed of our freedom, and our self-determination. And that, to me, is unforgivable.

Those denied abortions are more likely to stay with abusive partners, more likely to have serious complications in pregnancy, more likely to suffer from anxiety and poor physical health, and more likely to end up in poverty.