Women take to social media for #ShoutYourAbortion campaign in light of Planned
Ever since, the hashtag has been trending on Twitter, with women worldwide speaking up to share their experiences of abortion.
In the middle of this dark period, voices advocating abortion rights on social media and in the press have been getting stronger and stronger, creating a base of support that has fostered some of the best fictional abortion stories we’ve seen in years, in films like Obvious Child and Grandma. In his 2007 Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy specifically mentioned the “unexceptionable” likelihood that a woman might come to regret her choice.
“We gotta keep going hard like this until the world becomes a place where a woman can talk like I’m talking right now without their parents feeling scared that someone might f*** with me someday because of my voice * a href=”https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/shoutyourabortion?source=feed_text&story_id=10152980812921666″ data-ft=”{“tn”:”*N”,”type”:104}” *#ShoutYourAbortion,” Bonow said in another Facebook post.
Writer and editor Lindy West originated the hashtag.
Critics were quick to blast the hashtag, describing it as a “celebration” of abortions.
As the campaign went viral on Tuesday, another hashtag was started to promote adoption – but Steve turned it all on its head when he used it to promote his own career. She will be first in line ordering a shirt plastered with the words “Everybody Knows I Had an Abortion”.
“Abortion does not make you unpregnant”. No1 book and most importantly my kids think I’m a Number 1 dad. As conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin wrote, “Shout this LOUDER”.
To which the Twitter user wrote: “That constitutes an abortion hashtag”. “You can speak about them at full volume”.