A Congresswoman's Story: Raped at 17, 'I Chose to Have an Abortion'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Representative Barbara Lee, Democrat of California, was the first Black cheerleader in her high school and a promising student with good grades when she got pregnant before abortion was legal in the United States.
50% : Ms. Bush described how belittled she felt, as a Black teenager, "in being told that if I had this baby, I would wind up on food stamps and welfare."
46% : The hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform reflected a sharp cultural divide, with Republicans accusing Democrats of "glorifying and normalizing" abortion, and Democrats making their point -- that abortion is a decision best left to women and their doctors -- in matter-of-fact terms.
45% : A recent NBC poll found that a majority of Americans -- 54 percent -- believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
36% : Representative Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, is known on Capitol Hill as a nurse, a pastor, a Black Lives Matter activist and a member of a "squad" of progressive women lawmakers.
33% : With the right to abortion under threat after a major Supreme Court setback, Ms. Bush was one of three Democratic congresswomen who sat at a witness table to share their personal experiences with terminating a pregnancy.
33% : The hearing, entitled "A Dire State: Examining the Urgent Need to Protect and Expand Abortion Rights and Access in the United States," also revealed how the issue of abortion is intertwined with America's racial divide.
32% : But majorities of evangelical Christians, rural Americans, and Southerners said abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.

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