ShoutYourAbortion

The Shout Your Abortion campaign was started on September 19, 2015, by American activists Lindy West, Amelia Bonow, and Kimberly Morrison, in response to efforts by the United States House of Representatives to defund Planned Parenthood following the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy.

Shout Your Abortion co-founder Amelia Bonow reported she "cried all day" in response to the House of Representatives attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.

[7][8][9][10] On September 19, 2015, Bonow turned to social media, speaking out in defense of Planned Parenthood on her Facebook page.

An image of Kimberly Morrison's unshaved armpit with a tattoo that reads "fuck the patriarchy" was used as the logo for the Shout Your Abortion social media campaign.

[4][6][11][12][13] While 2015 is acknowledged as the start of #ShoutYourAbortion as a social media campaign, the efforts of Sue Perlgut and other second-wave feminists who suggested that women confess their abortions publicly provides historic precedent from the 1970s.

"[11][15][16][17][18] On September 19, 2015, West tweeted: "My abortion was in '10 & the career I've built since then fulfills me & makes me better able to care for kids I have now #ShoutYourAbortion.

"[20][21][22] Planned Parenthood's executive vice present, Dawn Laguens, publicly supported the Shout Your Abortion social media campaign saying: "We're happy to see more and more people coming forward...these stories are a powerful reminder that women should never feel shamed or judged.

[24] Within days of the launch of the social media campaign, Bonow was contacted by NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood with advice for harnessing the current outpouring of attention in order to turn Shout Your Abortion into something bigger and more organized.

[25] In addition to positive abortion stories and support for the abortion-rights movement, the social media campaign received backlash and criticism as anti-abortion activists also began using the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion to combat these beliefs.

Mic.com, a media company focused on millennials described Shout Your Abortion as Twitter users "bravely fighting stigma in the most inspiring way".

"[33] Writing for The Seattle Times, Nicole Brodeur commented that "If abortion is a political football, #ShoutYourAbortion is a Hail Mary pass – women publicizing an extremely personal decision in order to save what they believe is every woman's right.

"[34] Writing for Jezebel, Shout Your Abortion co-founder Amelia Bonow summarized the social media campaign by saying: "they can't figure out how to shut us up" furthering, "there are too goddamned many of us and you cannot reverse a viral shift in cultural consciousness. "

Co-founder Lindy West said that getting the discussion out in public is the whole point of the social media campaign, saying: "you never have to feel ashamed of your personal medical decisions," "You can speak about them at full volume.