Planned Parenthood to feature billboards around Iowa asking people to 'Say Abortion'

Billboards in support of abortion, featuring women who say they’ve had the procedure, are going up around Iowa.

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland said its “Say Abortion” billboards were up in Des Moines as of Friday. Additional billboards are scheduled to be released in other Iowa cities later this month, the group said.

Planned Parenthood's Iowa affiliate said in a news release that the billboards are aimed at “breaking the cycle of silence and stigma” around abortion in the state.

“We are amplifying the voices of real people who have had abortions, we are talking about abortion care out loud, and we are shifting the narrative so all people can talk openly about abortion with sensitivity to the complexity of real-life individual experiences,” said Dr. Jill Meadows, medical director for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, in a statement.

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