A day after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the hugely restrictive "fetal heartbeat" law, late-night host and actor Busy Philipps revealed that she underwent an abortion at 15. "I cannot sit idly by while women’s rights are stripped away," she told her viewers.
Then, in light of Alabama's near-total abortion ban, which Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law on Wednesday, Busy prompted Twitter users who've had abortions to help destigmatize the procedure by sharing their truths via the hashtag #YouKnowMe.
The tweet has since garnered more than 42,000 likes and almost 2,000 comments, most of which include raw, honest accounts of past abortions. Here are 27 of those stories:
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