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#HipHop4Her: Did You #ShoutYourAbortion ?

Juno couldn’t go through with her abortion after that Asian girl stepped to her and said “Your baby has finger nails.” But what about the fingernails comment made her not want to do it? What if that fingernails comment still doesn’t have an affect on those still willing to have an abortion. Okay the baby has fingernails, so what? Although abortions are depicted as a crime against humanity, others feel that it’s a choice whether they want to have one or not. They shouldn’t be sorry for it either.

Recently the House of Representatives voted to revoke funding for Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization that has been around since 1916. The organization is known for helping women in need with reproductive health as well as maternal and child health services. One of the services Planned Parenthood offers is abortions, which explains the funding cut. This has a lot of pro-choice activists calling for attention. One way of doing that is starting a campaign on Twitter called #shoutyourabortion.

Three women, Lindy West, Amelia Bonow and Kimberly Morrison, started the campaign over the weekend. According to Yahoo News, the women said they started the campaign in a bid to encourage women to reclaim the conversation about abortion. Bonow shared her story on Facebook along with the hashtag. Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 6.05.27 PM

 

 

Since then other women have taken to Twitter to also share their story.  A friend of mine who had an abortion at Planned Parenthood commented on the issue saying “Yea, I mean a lot of women get abortions because either they don’t feel they can bring a baby into this world without being financially stable or something they just think they’re not ready for. That’s a woman’s choice to always have, I believe.” 

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