
The Stigma of “Late-Term Abortions” Is the Point
When Jessy was 20 years old, she needed an abortion. At the time, she was a student at UC Riverside, where she led a campus reproductive justice advocacy group—she was quite aware of what was happening to her body and familiar with what needed to be done. What she didn’t anticipate were all the barriers she herself would face, all the stumbling blocks that sprang up between her and the care she desperately required, even in a state that’s considered to be a bastion for abortion access.

Angst and apprehension for some women as U.S. Supreme Court revisits abortion
Jessy Rosales did not realize she was pregnant for weeks. When she found out, Rosales - a 20-year-old college student at the time hid it from her family, whose judgment she feared, and struggled to find an abortion clinic that would accept her student health insurance…