Nelly London on certainty, stigma and why her experience of abortion looked nothing like the stories millennial women grew up seeing.
By Mischa Anouk Smith
June 15, 2026
When Nelly London discovered she was pregnant, there was no moment of uncertainty and no difficult decision to make. Instead, she knew immediately that she didn’t want to be pregnant. Her focus turned to getting the care she needed as quickly as possible.
Here, she talks about certainty, relief, the realities of having a medical abortion, and why the experience was so different from the narratives as a millennial woman she’d grown up seeing in popular culture.
Continued: https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/what-it-feels-like-to-get-an-abortion-nelly-london