{"id":2204,"date":"2016-03-07T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/07\/i-am-sick-of-being-silenced-9-women-share-their-abortion-stories\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:32:13","slug":"i-am-sick-of-being-silenced-9-women-share-their-abortion-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/07\/i-am-sick-of-being-silenced-9-women-share-their-abortion-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;I am sick of being silenced&#039;: 9 women share their abortion stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gettyimages-533726309\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAzLzA0LzU1L0dldHR5SW1hZ2VzLmVhNTMxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/eac84083\/cac\/GettyImages-533726309.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=%27I+am+sick+of+being+silenced%27%3A+9+women+share+their+abortion+stories&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F06%2Fabortion-stigma-women-stories%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F06%2Fabortion-stigma-women-stories%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One in three American women will have an abortion in her lifetime, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/pubs\/fb_induced_abortion.html\">research<\/a>\u00a0from the Guttmacher Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That means most Americans know someone who has ended a pregnancy, even if that person has never spoken about it personally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/01\/abortion-stigma-whole-womans-health\/?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">Inside the abortion clinic where no one whispers, no one shames<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Until recently, the stigma surrounding abortion seemed unbreakable. Few women wanted to publicly discuss their experiences, fearing they&#8217;d be harassed or called murderers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">This stigma can prevent people from talking to their friends, families, co-workers and employers about their experiences, even if it affects their daily lives.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">It also keeps women from politically advocating for themselves and their families.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/06\/abortion-stigma-women-stories\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/health\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/u.s.\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">U.S.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/supreme-court\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Supreme Court<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gender\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gender<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/C8LdqjZLHo4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in three American women will have an abortion in her lifetime, according to research\u00a0from the Guttmacher Institute.\u00a0 That means most Americans know someone who has ended a pregnancy, even if that person has never spoken about it personally.\u00a0 SEE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/07\/i-am-sick-of-being-silenced-9-women-share-their-abortion-stories\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1161,1205,749,1513,815],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-gender","tag-health","tag-politics","tag-supreme-court","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}