# @shoutyourabortion on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CIjnpcGJcKM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34221194-shoutyourabortion-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-12-09T00:16:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Shout Your Abortion (@shoutyourabortion) — https://gondola.cc/shoutyourabortion

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🖤 Congratulations to @thankgodforabortion creator Viva Ruiz for a much-deserved win of the inaugural @topicalcream prize in the activist category. We are so thrilled to be able to support this artist & her groundbreaking work with abortion-having people of faith of all genders. Interview excerpt below:

Viva Ruiz: I believe thanking God for abortion first popped out of me after I had my first abortion, and then my second abortion too, like a literal relief: PHEW, THANK GOD FOR ABORTION. … I started to riff on Christian themes and this one definitely was the phrase that hit a nerve, even in the ultra-liberal NYC lefty circles I was in, which made me want to stomp on that nerve more. Since then, I’ve become an even more faithful person. There’s an honor of being entrusted with so many people’s truths about their abortions, to hear people testify on the relief of more and more of us insisting on our perfection not in spite of abortion, but because of it. We choose who we are. We glorify in our true selves. We don’t let apologies be a part of this anymore. I’m more faithful because I’ve seen how important we are to each other through this project, how our struggles for personhood are interconnected, how one conversation can release us from a long-held condemnation. I’m in awe of the power we have to liberate each other. 

Read the full interview at TopicalCream.org. 🖤⚡️💚 #thankgodforabortion #shoutyourabortion #abortolegal

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