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Teens Are Speaking Up About Their Abortions Through Youth Testify (BARF)
TEEN VOGUE ^ | September 12, 2018 | Elly Belle

Posted on 09/12/2018 7:22:18 AM PDT by Morgana

When 22-year-old Jessy first learned she was pregnant, she was in shock. At the time, she was a junior at the University of California, Riverside, the president of her campus chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, and a reproductive rights activist. Still, she said she never quite imagined herself as someone who might someday be fighting for her own right to have an abortion.

"I just didn’t know what to do for myself even though I knew what I would always tell others," Jessy told Teen Vogue. "Knowing that what was inside me kept growing as time progressed really did take an emotional toll on me, my grades, my social life… it wasn’t until after I got my abortion that I got some sort of relief.

Jessy was ultimately able to get an abortion, and now she is one of 13 young people between the ages of 17 and 24 who will be participating in Youth Testify. The new leadership program being launched by Advocates for Youth and the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) is specifically for young people who have had abortions and want to share their stories to change the conversation around abortion and combat misinformation. “Because of all the hurdles I had to go through with insurance, I had to play the waiting game for so long, and because there’s so much stigma surrounding abortion, I was ashamed and didn’t try to reach out for more help,” Jessy told Teen Vogue.

(Excerpt) Read more at teenvogue.com ...


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Decided I should post the entire article from Teen Vogue as some of you have daughters/granddaughters who might have access to this trash.

This is how they are reaching the young people and this is what they are filling their heads with!

Teen Vogue--now abortion is "Fashion"

1 posted on 09/12/2018 7:22:18 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

22-year old teen. She’s as bad at math as she is at biology.


2 posted on 09/12/2018 7:23:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: Morgana

Disgusting and evil. Making murder glamorous.


3 posted on 09/12/2018 7:28:29 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: a fool in paradise; Mrs. Don-o

I guess we are to assume she had the abortion when she was a teen.

However most of these abortions occurred when these women were in college putting them at 18 or 19, still old enough to know better. If they spent more time on their studies and less time whoring around maybe they’d go far and not be worried about being pregnant.


4 posted on 09/12/2018 7:29:11 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

One terrible day, if these women were to actually give birth, a child will learn that their mother knowingly and willingly killed their sibling. Sorry but that child will never look upon their mother the same ever again.


5 posted on 09/12/2018 7:31:05 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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One terrible day, if these women were to actually give birth they will realize they killed their baby years ago.


6 posted on 09/12/2018 7:32:20 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

She was a junior in college at the time.


7 posted on 09/12/2018 7:33:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: Morgana

3 years past high school.


8 posted on 09/12/2018 7:33:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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When 22-year-old Jessy first learned she was pregnant, she was in shock.

What is shocking is people now days have not concept of condoms or taking advantage of the college's free birth control pills. If they're that stupid, then they should keep their pants zipped and their knees together.

9 posted on 09/12/2018 7:34:45 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Morgana

Teen Vogue seems to be impressing upon teen and pre-teen girls that pregnancy is likely for them as teens. Who among them can even afford an abortion or has their own insurance?


10 posted on 09/12/2018 7:35:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: Morgana

do 18 and 19 year olds even read teen vogue?

The scare also seems to be to get them concerned about elections but those under 18 cannot vote.


11 posted on 09/12/2018 7:37:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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Oh they have the knowledge of the various birth control methods, they just choose not to use them. Here’s the graphic truth. Men hate condoms for obvious reasons and won’t use them. Also the pill has to be taken consistently or oops! All this being said teen pregnancies are down because the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists are pushing LARCs ( long acting contraception) that are either implants or injectables that prevent pregnancies and periods for months and years at a time. Young women are signing up by the thousands so they don’t have the hassle of getting a period. The long term health consequences are unknown and not discussed by prescribing physicians. That’s the hard truth.


12 posted on 09/12/2018 7:43:40 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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I guess we are to assume she had the abortion when she was a teen.
No, it states right in the opening sentence - "When 22-year-old Jessy first learned she was pregnant ..."
Just another example of 21st Century journalism.
13 posted on 09/12/2018 7:47:39 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Morgana

“I wouldn’t want my daughter to be punished with a baby”. BHO


14 posted on 09/12/2018 7:48:21 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (If your church believes in evolution it is not a Christian church.)
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To: Morgana

Abortion something they get to live with for the rest of their LIFE.


15 posted on 09/12/2018 7:58:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: bgill; Morgana
What is shocking is people have no concept of the fact that even with condoms and birth control pills. they can still get pregnant. In the city where I live, the coordinator of the local pro-life Pregnancy Aid center got pregnant years ago, unmarried, twice: once when using a condom and once on the pill.

She should have known that you can get a "breakthrough ovulation" if you forget to take the Pill even once, and that's what she had done. And speaking of "breakthrough," that term --- as well as "slip and drip," "wear and tear," applies to condoms as well :o/

Friends, sex was designed for reproduction, and as they said in Jurassic Park, "Life...uh...finds a way."

Bottom line: unless you're married and ready to meet a kid who calls you "Dad" or "Mom," everybody should keep their pants zipped and their knees together.

Or be prepared to be a murderer.

16 posted on 09/12/2018 8:05:30 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child who's got his own." - Billie Holliday)
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To: a fool in paradise; Morgana
"Who among them can even afford an abortion or has their own insurance?"

Who among them has absolutely no conscience or a heart like stone?

The may bury their consciences, but they are burying them alive. As some point, the sickening awareness will claw its way up to the surface again.

We can hope.

If it does not --- if their conscience is well and truly dead --- they have subhumanized themselves in the worst possible way, which has sad and disappointing consequences in this life, and in the life to come.

17 posted on 09/12/2018 8:09:50 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Abortion does not call into question the unborn baby's humanity, but our own.)
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To: longfellowsmuse
This is 100% correct.

The implications are enormous and ramify out in all directions: medical, moral, psychological, social, demographic, spiritual.

This destroys souls, couples, marriage as an institution, nations, cultures, civilizations.

Do I hear an Allahu Akbar?

18 posted on 09/12/2018 8:14:14 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Contraception: heterosexual sodomy.)
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To: longfellowsmuse

Mucking about with hormonal supression during the hormonal change of life known as puberty. Whst could possibly go wrong for the human race???


19 posted on 09/12/2018 8:16:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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News reports a lady and her “unborn baby” were BOTH killed in a car wreck...

Why is the child killed here an “unborn baby” and the aborted child is a “fetus”???????


20 posted on 09/12/2018 8:37:57 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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