In 2021, Feminist Women’s Health Center received a grant from the Women’s Foundation California to shift culture and perspectives on abortion access. With that funding, we were able to develop FWHC’s Abortion Storytelling Project, where we provided trainings & compensated opportunities for activists to develop storytelling skills around their abortion experiences. Check out the stories below, which were all developed by abortion storytellers across Atlanta, Georgia.
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I found out that I was pregnant in an employee bathroom of an H&M clothing store on the second floor of our local mall.
I’d purchased the test from a Walgreens nearby on my way to work, and walked into my part-time retail job that morning with the box bouncing around in my bag. I stood at the sink in the bathroom for a very long time after the positive result appeared, staring at myself in the mirror. I touched my stomach. I never cried. A few long moments later, I walked onto the sales floor and began unloading a shipment of neon-colored dresses.
Content warning for mentions of sexual assault
Hi. I’m Cazembe Jackson. I am a Black, Southern, nonbinary Trans Man. In the spring of 2001, I was raped by four men. I was queer and presenting in a very trans masculine way. That rape produced an unwanted pregnancy. I dropped out of school and went home. My mother wasn’t very supportive about the rape. She made it seem as if it was my fault because I was queer.
I found out I was pregnant with my second child when I was 21 years old. While going through the pregnancy process with my first child in August of 2020, I developed some health problems, leaving me to have a high-risk pregnancy. Through all the pain, doctor visits, sleepless nights, I delivered a healthy baby girl. In January 2021 the next year I found out I was pregnant again and this time not planned or anything considering the high-risk pregnancy I had just experienced.
Everyone’s decision to have an abortion is entirely unique and, more often than not, personal history is ingrained in that decision. In this interview below, a member of FWHC sat down with an abortion storyteller (who we’ll call KS), who speaks to the myriad of emotions she endured on her journey. She gives us a substantial and vulnerable view into her experience receiving an abortion, as well as how she managed her family’s opinion on abortion with her own.
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