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This Is Personal

An awesome campaign from the National Women’s Law Center, emphasizing that reproductive choices are personal — and we should keep them that way.

Why does it matter? Because as the NWLC says, “In 2011, state legislators proposed more than 1,100 provisions on women’s reproductive health care, the vast majority of which were restrictions on services such as birth control and abortion; 109 of these measures were enacted, effectively chipping away at a woman’s ability to make decisions for herself.” This graph really says it all:

Graph of abortion restrictions over the years, with a large spike in 2011

Head over there to learn more about what you can do.