Read Rebecca Gomperts's Inspiring Speech at Glamour's 2022 Women of the Year Awards
glamour.comceremony, founder and director Dr. Rebecca Gomperts was honored for her work providing tens of thousands of women with access to medication abortion across America—from her headquarters in Amsterdam.
The impact of was perfectly summed up by actor and podcast host Busy Philipps, who presented Gomperts with her award at the Tuesday, November 1 ceremony. “I had this realization a long time ago, but simply existing as a woman in this country and in many, many countries is a political act,” Philipps said. “When I had an abortion at 15, I truly didn't know that I would spend so much fucking time talking about it 25 years later.
It's not what I imagined when I pretended to do my late night interviews in my car as I drove to high school and here we are.
Like a lot of you in this room, I was raised thinking that Roe was the law. It was settled. It would never be overturned.”“I have a mother who remembered the time before and had friends and told me about it,” she added. “I had a mother who fiercely protected me and took me for my abortion.
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