Abortion Denial Is Often About Privilege

Whether you’re in the US, Finland or Argentina, opposing abortion often comes from living in a bubble.

Taru Anniina Liikanen
GEN
Published in
6 min readOct 15, 2021

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A pro-abortion protest. Photo by Rafael Idrovo Espinoza on Unsplash

When I moved to Argentina, I was shocked to find out the country, as most others in Latin America, didn’t allow for women to terminate their pregnancies legally and safely, in a hospital.

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Taru Anniina Liikanen
GEN
Writer for

Stand-up comedian and recovering political ghostwriter. Finnish by birth, porteña at heart. Bad jokes frequent.