Partners in Abortion Care, which opened in College Park, Maryland, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, helps women terminate pregnancies even if they come from states where abortion is illegal. Text by Margaret Talbot and photographs by Maggie Shannon.
For nearly a year, the photographer Maggie Shannon visited the clinic regularly with her Canon R5 camera. The clinic’s staff allowed Shannon in because they wanted to help lift some of the secrecy that surrounds later abortions. “Even within our own community” of reproductive-medicine practitioners, Nuzzo said, “later abortion is still kind of stigmatized.” In the end, Nuzzo and Horvath were astonished by how often patients agreed to be photographed, albeit with their faces concealed.
Some patients have just been given their own diagnoses—of cancer, for instance. “They want to receive chemotherapy, and they’re, like, ‘I can’t do this. I want to save my own life,’ ” Horvath explained. Other women, she added, have had to assimilate devastating new facts—“like the fact that the person who got you pregnant turns out to be an abuser who beats the shit out of you.
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