The Salt Lake Tribune
Did these LDS women have abortions? Depends on whom you ask.
Synopsis
Stigma around the word “abortion” still looms strongly among community members in the Church of Latter-Day Saints, writes Tamarra Kemsley of The Salt Lake Tribune. She spoke to Mormon women who had abortions who felt that their stories showed, in the words of one interviewee, that there are “3 trillion shades of gray” when it comes to abortion and pregnancy care. For all of the women, the heightened visibility of abortion care post-Roe changed how they viewed their own experiences.
Before I thought that abortion wasn’t something that I needed to get involved in or have an opinion on because it didn’t involve me. Boy, was I wrong.
Leitaea Lowrimore went to three ERs in two states in the middle of a medical crisis. No one would treat her.
Kishaya Holloway is an artist in Arkansas. She never questioned her decision to have an abortion, only the barriers that made it difficult to access care.
