Busy Phillip’s #YouKnowMe Movement Sees Thousands Share Their Abortion Stories

MotivationMay 31, 2019

The vote by Alabama lawmakers to place a ban on abortion didn’t sit well with the women in the state, which is why Busy Phillips stepped up to speak against it. The actress kick-started the #YouKnowMe movement on Tuesday 15^thMay, not long after the Alabama judiciary voted in favor of banning abortion in the state. Just a week before the incident, the Busy Tonight show host had revealed her abortion story on her twitter page, urging those who had similar stories to also share them.

According to her tweet, “1 in 4 women has had an abortion. Many think they don’t know anyone who has but #youknowme. So let’s do this. If you are also 1 of the 4, let’s share and start to end the shame. Use #youknowme and share your truth.”

After Phillips posted that tweet, several thousand people followed suit, including almost 2 dozen celebrities who had been through the same experience.

According to Phillips, she was a vulnerable 15-year-old when she underwent the procedure. Barely a week after her revelation, several women summoned the courage to share their stories. Even Ashley Judd revealed her own experience and declared that she was supposed to have the right to do whatever she wanted with her ‘insides.’

These celebrities, like most women, share the opinion that having a child when one is not emotionally or financially prepared, is exposing a woman and an innocent soul to a life of possible struggle and hardship, a reality that has no place in today’s society of equal rights and opportunity.

Alabama, alongside several other neighboring states’ actions in passing such bills, is seen as an aberration from the 1973 landmark decision of the US Supreme Court with its ruling that the 14^th amendment provides a woman’s right to privacy and the right to choose to have an abortion. Busy Phillips and other abortion advocates are fighting hard to overturn the new anti-abortion laws and to protect the Roe v Wade.