Recently, the comedienne Grace Campbell wrote in the Observer: “I am obviously pro-choice. I say obviously, not because I assume you know who I am but rather, I assume you know what’s right. But if you do know who I am, you’ll know my comedy has always been described as ‘sex-positive’ and pro ‘women being able to do what the **** we want with our bodies'.”
The choice she was concerned with was one which led to a clinic where: “The doctor showed me the foetus on the screen, gave me a pill, told me some basic facts, but…did not prepare me for what was about to come. That I wouldn’t be able to look in the mirror, or at pictures of myself, for months, because I would totally dissociate from my body in the hope that I would feel further away from my reality. That I would feel a pervasive sense of guilt, for letting go of something that was mine. And that then I would feel shame, shame that feeling guilty was in some way a dishonour to the women who fought for my right to be able to have this choice.”
