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Cherry Hill Clinic Counselor's Abortion Video Goes Viral

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Emily Letts filmed her abortion and posted it online, she said, to remove the stigma surrounding abortion

A Cherry Hill abortion clinic counselor who is a former actress filmed her abortion, declaring: "I'm not ready to have children." 

Now that video is going viral.

"Hey I'm pregnant," she says in the video.

Emily Letts, 25, said she just wanted to "share my story" in an effort to remove the stigma surrounding abortion.

"I just wanted to show there's such a thing as a positive abortion story," she says.

She filmed it at he Cherry Hill Women's Center on Kings Highway, where she works. She wrote about the video for Cosmopolitan's online site.

"I don't feel like a bad person," she said.

"I knew that what I was going to do was right," she said.


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