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'Not Ashamed': Democratic Congresswomen Testify About Their Personal Abortion Stories [1]
['Julia Conley', 'Julia Conley Is A Staff Writer For Common Dreams.']
Date: 2021-09-30
as Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) planned to share their own personal stories of obtaining abortion care. Reproductive rights advocates on Thursday expressed gratitude to three Democratic congresswomen ahead of their testimonies at a House Oversight Committee hearing on protecting abortion access,planned to share their own personal stories of obtaining abortion care.
her colleagues ahead of the hearing. hank you for your vulnerability to advance justice," said Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) on social media to "T
The three lawmakers are testifying at the committee's hearing on " Examining the Urgent Need to Protect and Expand Abortion Rights and Access" beginning at 10:00am.
Watch the hearing below:
"Today, I am testifying before you because I want you to know there are so many different situations that people face in making these choices," said Jayapal. "It is simply no one's business what choices we as pregnant people make about our bodies."
On Wednesday evening, Bush, Jayapal, and Lee also shared their personal stories in an interview with MSN BC correspondent Ali Vitali.
"When I found out that I was pregnant it was very difficult b ecause I still didn't understand what was happening," said Bush , who b ecame pregnant as the result of b eing raped at the age of 17. "I just knew I wasn't ready for a child."
"I am not ashamed," Bush said on Twitter Wednesday.
Jayapal shared that she had an a bortion after getting pregnant following her first "incred ibly difficult pregnancy," after which she suffered severe postpartum depression.
"I just realized that there was no way I could have another ba by at that time and that I could not go through what I had gone through," said the congresswoman.
blican-led states, including the passage of Texas' six-week a being held amid increasingly extreme attacks on reproductive rights in Repu bortion care in every state, and is bortion ban, S. B ber, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a Mississippi case which directly challenges Roe vs. Wade. . 8. In Decem The hearing comes days after the House passed the Women's Health Protection Act, which would ensure access to legal a
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