They Are All Pam

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AbstractThe author reflects on an experience with a young Laotian woman seeking an abortion in West Philadelphia in 1991. The experience led her to reflect on her mother’s abortion much earlier, following the mother’s rape.Keywords: abortionabortion storiesabortion clinicrapePhiladelphia 1991 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Station 11 is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction miniseries that ran for 10 episodes on HBO MAX about an devastating flu epidemic that wipes out humanity (see Wikepedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven_(miniseries)).2 See: Escalante-De-Mattei, S. (2022, May 9). Artists and activists banded together to tell abortion stores at an impassioned New York event. Art News. Accessed from: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/abortion-stories-cassandra-neyenesch-lena-chen-1234628089/ See also: https://ourabortionstories.com.Additional informationNotes on contributorsCassandra NeyeneschCassandra Neyenesch, B.A., is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer and curator. Anticipating the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she organized the first Abortion Stories: An Interactive Art Festival with psychologist Carolina Franco, which took place on May 6–8, 2022. Since then, Abortion Stories has facilitated storytelling events at public demonstrations and art shows in collaboration with Planned Parenthood, the Brooklyn Museum, Lump Projects, and Ross-Sutton Gallery. Her reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, the Huffington Post, Latino Rebel, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Perdita.