“…It was incredibly empowering to openly discuss my choice and to take my first leap into shattering the way I’ve been socialized to treat abortion as too taboo to be discussed. …I had my abortion at 8:15 a.m., and at 4:00 p.m. that same day I was scheduled to speak at a rally. The Seattle Storm had become the first professional sports team to publicly endorse Planned Parenthood, and I’d been asked to speak on behalf of PP patients. I announced to the crowd of hundreds that I’d had an abortion only hours prior to standing at that podium to address them. I shouted to WNBA players and reporters, to mothers and daughters, and to the 30 anti-choice protesters holding enlarged posters of aborted fetuses and signs reading ‘abortion is murder.’ It felt fucking amazing. I still really believe in doing things that scare me as a way to neutralize my own sense of fear, and I keep getting braver. The louder I shout, the more I know I’m helping other people do the same.” - Alana in the SYA book. Re...