{"id":299715,"date":"2023-10-05T18:45:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=299715"},"modified":"2023-10-04T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T21:25:19","slug":"scandal-kerry-washington-abortion-bad-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/scandal-kerry-washington-abortion-bad-word\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Scandal’ actress Kerry Washington: ‘It’s… important to me that abortion is not a bad word’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Scandal” actress Kerry Washington opened up about having an abortion in her memoir “Thicker Than Water,” where she discusses her career as well as the decision to end the life of her child.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking with People Magazine<\/a>, Washington discusses the desire to propagate the idea that \u201cabortion\u201d is not a \u201cbad word.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“I struggled a lot in the beginning with whether or not to include my abortion story,” the “Little Fires Everywhere” actress said. “At first I wasn’t really sure how it fit into this story of my life. But I started to feel like it was really important for me to share this.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“This story had so much to do with my understanding of myself and the world as my career unfolded,” Washington explained. “It’s just so important to me that abortion is not a bad word, and that my abortion is not another thing on the list of things that I’m ashamed of.” <\/span>She added, \u201cWe’re at a moment where it’s really important to be telling the truth about our reproductive choices because some of those choices are being stripped away from us.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The strong need to justify one’s past abortion<\/a>, find support for this action<\/a>, and encourage others to take the same action<\/a> is common among post-abortive women, though many have later found healing from that trauma through post-abortion<\/a> healing programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n