Hannah Betts: On abortion, beware the overshare

The notion of giving testimony to negative experience inherits a complex knot of religious, psychoanalytic and political associations. Nevertheless, in all these discourses, such disclosure implies a victim – even where this is understood to be a victim at the beginning of a redemptive journey. Talking about the reality of women’s bodies certainly had a role within the Our Bodies, Ourselves era of feminism. However, termination outing is in danger of reducing women to their bodies in a way patriarchy could only have dreamt of.

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