The Tribune, in recent weeks, interviewed eight women whose lives and work have been profoundly shaped by abortion. Here are their stories.
, which has strong reproductive rights protections and has long been considered a haven for those seeking an abortion.
Brittany Mostiller, former executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, has had multiple abortions and discusses them openly to help destigmatize the procedure. “We’ll still be making sure people can have their abortions,” she said. “Will it be more difficult? For sure. We know our ancestors were doing this prior to Roe. This work will continue.”After 40 years of anti-abortion activism, Monica Migliorino Miller never assumed or took it for granted that Roe v. Wade would be overturned in her lifetime.
“I kept boxes of aborted children, draped with a rosary, in my closet,” she wrote. “My mind became forever etched with the memory of hundreds of dismembered, broken bodies — their blood, intestines and torn skin.” The longtime activist founded the Chicago-based underground abortion service Jane in the years before Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure. Now often known as the, it started in 1965, when Booth was a student at the University of Chicago and arranged an abortion for the sister of a friend.
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