'I think people really underestimate the amount of people who have had abortions.”
, women and nonbinary people have been grieving. They’ve exchanged teary voice memos, frantic text messages, and Instagram posts full of rage. But, in many corners of the world and on the internet, the voices of men are missing. And when they do speak, too often it’s minimizing. “We knew this was coming,” they say. “Are you really surprised?” As though it were the surprise that hurts and not the loss of bodily autonomy.
It’s not that men should be taking center stage in the fight for reproductive access, but they should be lining up next to us. Abortion is not just a women’s issue. It is a health care issue that touches people across all ages, genders, geographic locations, religions, and more — whether or not they’re aware of it, whether or not they can get pregnant.talks with five men about how abortion has shaped their lives and how they're joining the fight.
“There was this strange sort of generational thing,” Leo says. “She also found out that two of her aunts had had abortions. I think people really underestimate the amount of people who have had abortions.” Leo, now 21, says the decision to have an abortion created a massive fork in his life. He can’t help but wonder about it sometimes — what would’ve happened if they had continued the pregnancy. It’s not regret exactly, he notes, but he does think about it occasionally. Maybe they would’ve stayed together or maybe the stress of having a child would’ve broken them up. Maybe Leo would’ve transferred to community college instead of the four-year institution he attended.
Eventually, Leo and his girlfriend broke up, but they are now together — though they’re hesitant to put a label on the relationship before she moves to New York City. Not many of their friends know about the abortion, which makes it difficult for Leo’s girlfriend in a post-world, where people everywhere are debating the right to abortion access. “Her friends might make comments that are hurtful, not knowing someone who had an abortion is in the room,” he explains.
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