Glamour
The Journey of My Abortion
Synopsis
At five months pregnant, Emma Giglio faced the devastating news that her pregnancy had multiple life-threatening anomalies. After making the decision to get an abortion, Emma and her husband Zach had to navigate finding an appointment in a post-Roe America. They were forced to travel hundreds of miles from their home in South Carolina to Maryland in order to find a clinic that provides care later in pregnancy in a state free from an abortion ban. As Emma describes her experience to Glamour, “Even when I think back on it now, it feels like an out-of-body experience. I still sometimes feel like, How did this happen to us? It doesn’t feel real.”
‘Eventually, at the end, the doctor told us to read between the lines,’ Emma recalls. It was clarifying. They knew the right thing to do would be to terminate.
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