My Story:

When I was 9 years old, my mother died from a botched self-induced and somewhat assisted attempt at an abortion. We’ve been told some combination of bleeding out and sepsis. I go in between feeling so fortunate and so furious. We have made such immense medical advancements! This doesn’t need to happen! Doctors Without Borders estimates that every minute someone somewhere in the world has an unsafe abortion, with unsafe abortions accounting for tens of thousands of deaths.