In a powerful new video for the Center for Reproductive Rights' "Draw the Line" campaign, which pushes back on attacks against reproductive rights, actress Jemima Kirke tells the story of terminating a pregnancy in college and how it helped to set her up for her own future as a woman and a mother.
She shared the story, she said, to fight the stigma that surrounds abortion in the United States and to help create a world wherein her two daughters won't be fighting for their own basic rights. "Reproductive issues should be something that women should be able to talk about freely," Kirke says.
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Jill Filipovic is a contributing writer for cosmopolitan.com. She is the author of OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind and The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness. A weekly CNN columnist and a contributing writer for the New York Times, she is also a lawyer.
