How to Access an Abortion in Louisiana During a Pandemic

Shannon Brown
19 min readFeb 21, 2021

Be prepared for barriers

I am a staunch defender of abortion, but this is not my story. I am 32 years old, and I have never been pregnant. This doesn’t make me special; it makes me an outlier.

In the U.S., the average age of first sexual intercourse is 17 and the average age of menopause is 51. Within these 34 fertile years, a woman will…

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Shannon Brown

Early Childhood Educator. Currently in: Los Angeles, California