USA – My Abortion Allowed Me to Control My Own Destiny. Millions of Others Deserve The Same Chance.

My Abortion Allowed Me to Control My Own Destiny. Millions of Others Deserve The Same Chance.
Your ability to have an abortion shouldn't depend on where you work or where you live. Access to abortion is freedom, and the Supreme Court must protect it.

Minouche Kandel , Senior Staff Attorney
June 11, 2020

I never expected to get an abortion. But I knew I could tell my mother. I grew up in New York and abortion was still illegal when I was born. One of my earliest memories is being in the car with my mother when she turned to me and told me that if I ever needed an abortion, I should let her know, because she “knew a lot of doctors.” My mother survived the Holocaust by hiding in a Catholic boarding school in the South of France. Her parents were active in the Jewish French resistance, and my grandmother helped my grandfather escape from Beaune-la-Rolande, a French-run Nazi transit camp which fed Jews to Auschwitz. My mother knew a thing or two about defying unjust laws.

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