Quick Hit: The 1 in 3 campaign

1in3Campaign.org: Alex from Advocates for Youth on Vimeo.

This is great. Advocates for Youth, Choica USA and SYRF collaborated to create the 1 in 3 campaign where people tell their abortion stories. It’s a fantastic way not only to remind the public about just how common abortion is, but also to humanize the act and put a face behind the number.

Transcript after the jump.

I had my daughter, 9 months went past, and I got pregnant again. And that was a big shock. And I wasn’t contemplating keeping the baby, but it would have been my first abortion, and I was very scared. And me and my daughter’s father didn’t have any money, abortions cost a lot of money — $350 is not cheap when you’re 19 with no job and a new baby and the baby’s father is halfway trying to support both of us. And, um, I ended up calling a friend of my mom’s who had gone through — who was an older woman, but she related to young people and she knew certain people who knew certain people who could help me with terminating the pregnancy. So she referred us to a clinic — and before that, we had to go borrow money from two different family members to get the abortion done. We didn’t even have any money. We didn’t even have any money to get the abortion done. And that’s just — how could we not have any money to do that, but we would have money to raise another one, you know what I mean? There would have just been no way. So that day, we rushed around, we got our money, we went to the clinic… I think that women should definitely share these stories, especially if they’re older women, and they’ve been through this before. I think knowledge is power, and if no one talks about it, then how are we supposed to know what to do or what do expect.