I had an abortion when I was 18. No big deal, right? For you in the UK, this probably isn’t that shocking a revelation. And up until recently it probably wouldn’t have been in the USA either. But these days, we almost have to come out of the abortion closet. Our rights are in danger, and yet 35% of American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45.

I had an abortion when I was 18. No big deal, right? For you in the UK, this probably isnu2019t that shocking a revelation. And up until recently it probably wouldnu2019t have been in the USA either. But these days, we almost have to come out of the abortion closet. Our rights are in danger, and yet 35% of American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45.

The great American sex scandal: US activist Sarah Sophie Flicker discusses the country's threat to reproductive rights