The 2018 ‘Abortion Speakout’ was a spectacular fail

Published March 1, 2018 7:32pm ET



The phrase “#1in3Speaks” was trending on Twitter on Tuesday for the “1 in 3 Campaign,” something Teen Vogue called, in their profile, “a social justice movement that uses the power of storytelling to engage and inspire action and strengthen support for abortion access.” Both the campaign and the hashtag function under the guise of empathy for women who have had abortions, and in this particular case, champion undocumented teens as women who should have equal access to abortion.

Still, the campaign — hashtag and all — deflect from their flawed purpose which is to normalize and celebrate abortion as an equal right.

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