Share Your Abortion Stories
Share Your Story
Sharing abortion stories brings us together. Sharing your story can be cathartic and help you prepare to share with your loved ones. Want to share your story on our website and see your star plotted on our abortion story map? Fill out this form.
Questions to ponder as you testify:
How do you feel the cultural environment and messages you received about abortion impacted your experience, both positive and negative?
Are there messages you learned about abortion in your family? How did they impact your experience?
Are there racial, ethnic, gender identity, class, sexuality, immigrant, ability, religious, or other identities that impacted your abortion experience?
How did your geographic location or community political climate impact your abortion experience?
What do you know now about your abortion experience that you would tell a younger version of yourself?
Were there barriers you faced? How did you navigate them?
How did you pay for your abortion? If you had insurance, were you able to use it, why or why not? Did you have to borrow money from someone or call an abortion fund? How did that experience make you feel?
Was there someone who helped you navigate barriers? How did they help you? What stands out about that person to you?
Was there a barrier that you were able to bypass because of your privilege? How did that impact your abortion experience?
What support did you or didn’t you have during your abortion? How do you think that impacted you?