Lincoln responded: “I write rom coms. They are light. But they can still handle weighty issues. We NEED these weighty issues handled with a light touch. There’s a reason comedy news is so popular. We can’t handle so much weighty shit without comic relief.”

Or course, this isn’t a call to talk about abortion in all romance books. But, as nearly one in four women in America under the age of 45 have had an abortion, it’s time to start including it in the narratives of female characters.

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Abortion needs to be normalised in romantic novels, says author Liz Lincoln