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Woman's Candid Video of Her Abortion Divides Internet

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

By Anthony Bellano

Cherry Hill, New Jersey
– An 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.

Letts told Cosmopolitan that she believes there's a lot of misinformation about abortion: "Women come into the clinic all the time terrified that they are going to be cut open, convinced that they won't be able to have kids after the abortion. The misinformation is amazing, but think about it: They are still willing to sacrifice these things because they know that they can't carry the child at this moment."

The video has garnered a strong, and at times angry reaction. The second comment on Cherry Hill Patch stated: "We always knew that televised executions would eventually carry the day. The only thing is...normally the perpetrator of some crime is executed while in this case an innocent is executed..."

The website thegatewaypundit reacted with the headline "Horror! Far Left Activist FILMS Her Own Abortion!"

Letts also had plenty of defenders. Equality for Women tweeted: "THIS is courage. THIS is leadership. Kudos for Emily Letts for fighting the idea that getting an abortion is shameful."

A Twitter feed of reaction is included with this post.

"I don't feel like a bad person," she said, near the end of the video.

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


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