“You can’t divorce my race from my experience.” Echoing Ida’s Shanelle Matthews shares her abortion story with Cosmopolitan magazine.
Outlet: Cosmopolitan
Who Should Speak Up About Abortion Access?
Sharing my story has been a freeing and empowering experience that I wouldn’t change for a minute. But being a biracial black woman who tells the world about her abortion brings on a litany of racist and sexist epithets that take their toll on my emotional and mental well-being.