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#ShoutYourAbortion Movement to Release a Coffee Table Book
The #ShoutYourAbortion movement will release a coffee table book November 1 that features “abortion stories” and “abortion art” in an effort to destigmatize abortions. As KUOW Public Radio wrote September 14, the book, entitled Shout Your Abortion, is “not ashamed of its 43 abortion stories.”
KUOW reports the #ShoutYourAbortion movement began in 2015 after Seattle bartender Amelia Bonow shared her abortion experience on Facebook in a post in which she described her “near inexpressible level of gratitude.” Bonow’s post was then shared by her friend Lindy West on Twitter with the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion, prompting other women to begin sharing their “abortion stories.”
Since then, Bonow has developed an entire movement and organization based around the notion that women should not be ashamed of their abortions. The movement’s website claims that women have used the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion to “reject the expectation of silence and shame.” The site claims that the goal is to kill anti-choice legislation by making the act of talking about abortion as “normal as the procedure itself.”
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