Posted on 05/17/2019 3:45:18 PM PDT by Morgana
After Busy Philipps opened up about her abortion on TV, a friend saw an opportunity for a bigger conversation about reproductive rights.
Now, thousands of women have shared their own abortion stories online, many using the hashtag #YouKnowMe. In a phone interview, Ms. Philipps discussed her motivations for speaking out, the response to her story and what comes next.
What led you to talk about abortion on your show?
Part of what I think was so successful in getting people motivated and men on board with the #MeToo movement was hearing from women about their personal stories. Abortion has been, historically speaking, a very taboo subject that women have a hard time talking about publicly, because it’s such a personal decision.
The anti-abortion people in this country are so vocal, and for all of those reasons I think women have remained silent. And I felt like, well, maybe there’s actually value in sharing.
We need to be as loud as they are, but with the truth. That’s the only thing we have. For me it includes people standing up and saying, “I am that one in four.” It doesn’t matter why, when, or how old you were.
“You know me, you like me, and I went through this.” I think there’s something super empowering about being able to shift the narrative and being able to have a ton of people say, “I’ve also gone through this thing.”
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#WhereHaveAllTheGoodMenGone
This isn’t going to make a lot of people love the Democrats.
“See post #8.”
I did.... but not the NYT advocacy of it.
I did not call it to your attention with any relation to the NYT article.
You erroneously asserted that conservatives were silent.
The Silent No More project demonstrates that not only are conservatives not silent, they have been affective enough to provoke this as a leftist counter.
Oh, I know we wholly embrace women who’ve had abortions and “fall out of favor” with the pro-abortion crowd. What I’m talking about is a sort of blackmail. For example, consider a woman who is swept up in all this and reveals her abortion story on FB or Twitter. Maybe a few years later she has a change of heart. Some ugly pro-abortionist may threaten to leak her pro-abortion testimonial to her boss, co-workers, etc. (most senior managers aren’t FB fri nds with employees). Information is power, and I don’t trust the way this whole thing is going.
I can’t stand to hear another syllable about abortion and gays. My head is going to crack.
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