"In 2010 there was a big news story in Thailand when over 2000 fetuses were found in a temple in Bangkok. The headlines were quoting opinions about abortion from the police, monks, doctors, politicians – basically everybody but the women who were actually having abortions. Everyone was pointing the finger, talking about karma, and trying to shame those of us who have had abortions.
I was tired of seeing all the judgement and misinformation so I started a blog. I shared my own experience with abortion. After some time, some other women started to write about their abortion stories too. Then one day, a woman wrote to me saying she needed to have an abortion and wanted to know where to go.
So I started giving practical information on the blog to help people connect to services. I started giving out my phone number and that’s how the phone counselling for abortion first started."
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