Lucy Burns: Why I wrote a book about the untold reality of abortion

Lucy Burns’ visceral and compelling debut, , recalls her confusion and pain following her abortion in 2017. It is a powerful book, one that breaks taboo about the way in which some women feel after terminating a pregnancy while remaining strongly pro-choice. The restrictive and archaic abortion legislation in Texas has made women who have the freedom to choose feel fortunate to live where they do. It has also amplified the feeling that to talk about abortion in any other way is somehow to fuel the fire of anti-abortionists, that any accounts of guilt, confusion and sadness after terminating a… Read Full Article