Stories bring us close to lived experience. Amidst all the coverage of the politics of abortion, we rarely hear personal stories directly. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that stripped Americans of the constitutional right to abortion, KPFA radio producer Kendall Crakow reached out to folks to gather their abortion stories. I joined her to co-produce stories from these three women.
You will hear: A woman, despite using an IUD, finds herself pregnant and in need of an abortion 13 years after her first abortion, and struggles to find treatment in an ultra-conservative, anti-abortion state. A rabbi tells two abortion stories: the septic abortion and death of her great-great grandmother in the 1880s, and her own abortion in pre-Roe America. While in high school, a teenager in the midst of coming into her identity as a lesbian discovers she is pregnant.
HAVE A LISTEN!
Chana Wilson 