On the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, last December, Amelia Bonow took an abortion pill. She wasn’t pregnant; the Seattle activist publicly popped the 200mg of mifepristone in defiance of the oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case whose ruling this summer is expected to gut the federal right to abortion, even as it remains legal in states like Washington. Raised in Gig Harbor, Bonow planned to become a therapist when a single work of activism in 2015, publicly sharing the relatively mundane story of her own abortion, turned into a calling. Aided by writer Lindy West, Bonow’s #shoutyourabortion tag
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