Summary: Shout Your Abortion

This news story is about a young woman that decided to create a twitter hash tag that is called “Shout Your Abortion”. The purpose of this hash tag was for women to speak out about their abortions because of the pandemonium with Planned Parenthood clinic right now, which is stated in the article that “Congress investigates Planned Parenthood and debates cutting off its funding because of undercover videos showing officials of the group’s discussing providing fetal tissue for research” (Lewin). Not many women speak out about their abortions because some people associate it with murder. It’s thought that if more women that have had abortions speak out it may shine a different light on the negativity abortion is made out to be so funding for Planned Parenthood won’t stop and abortion will stay legal.

I personally go to a Planned Parenthood clinic myself for birth control and I noticed almost every time protestors outside Planned Parenthood protesting against abortion using the word of God as a subjective to their protest every time I have only seen men protesting not once a woman. This relates to our class readings and discussions, how a man used to dictate every aspect of a woman’s life and body because women used to be a man’s property. This isn’t meant to say that it’s only men against abortion because there are women out there against it, but personally I think a man would have less right to protest against abortion or anything related to a woman’s body because most aren’t a women themselves and have almost no way of truly relating to pregnancy or anything in that category that women go