A declaration by 53 prominent American women in a historic 1972 issue of Ms. came with a simple headline: WeHaveHadAbortions
“To many American women and men it seems absurd, in this allegedly enlightened age, that we should still be arguing for a simple principle: that a woman has the right to sovereignty over her own body.”
“There are tragically few places in the country where a woman can obtain an abortion without the expense and deception of conforming to inhumane laws, or the expense and physical danger of going outside the law,” she explained. “This has caused untold suffering, especially on the part of poor women who must resort to self-induced or butchered abortions.”
Yet, in the wake of laws being introduced and passed in state legislatures across the country banning abortion and criminalizing women and their healthcare providers, the legendary declaration by leading feminists in 1972 in our pages remains resonant. In 2006, we re-launched the “We Had Abortions” campaign, garnering thousands of responses from women nationwide. Today, we’re doing the same.
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