Why Won’t President Biden Utter the Word ‘Abortion’?

Article originally appeared in Playboy on March 10th, 2021

Makayla Montoya, a 21-year-old living in Texas who spoke to Playboy from a parent’s home after her apartment lost water, power, and heat during the recent winter-storm crisis in the state, has experienced the ramifications of such a void, and how it can perpetuate stigma, shame, and judgment, and make it easier for barriers to abortion care to remain. Montoya was 19 when she had her first abortion, and, given the limited amount of access to care in her state, she first visited a crisis pregnancy center.