Kenlissia Jones did what many women before her have done. Facing a pregnancy she could not or did not want to continue, Jones, a 23-year-old black woman from Georgia, went online in search of a solution. There, she purchased Cytotec, a prescription abortion-inducing pill, from a pharmaceutical company in Canada. She delivered a five and […]
Author: Lauren Rankin
Lauren Rankin is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Talking Points Memo, Salon and many others. She is also a board member of A is For, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing women's reproductive rights and ending the stigma against abortion. She has a Master of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University.