{"id":102484,"date":"2023-03-29T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=102484"},"modified":"2023-03-30T20:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:14:53","slug":"abortion-advocacy-improves-mental-health-activists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/abortion-advocacy-improves-mental-health-activists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion advocacy improves mental health, activists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexa Erbach<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Almost a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many states continue to fight for abortion access while 13 have already banned most abortions. Three of those states include Wisconsin, Missouri and Kentucky, all of which border Illinois.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As local activists in Illinois fight to secure safe access to abortions, especially for those living in states without it, some say advocacy efforts also help their own mental health during uncertain times when reproductive rights are challenged.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Abortion advocacy improves mental health, activists say by MedillReports\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1468858441&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=800\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Transcript<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>[People talking at gallery]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>River North\u2019s social justice gallery Weinberg\/Newton was buzzing with excitement on opening night over its newest exhibition, \u201cFor Those Without Choice\u201d \u2014 a partnership with Planned Parenthood of Illinois to explore the power of advocacy through art.<\/p>\n<p><b>Erbach: What do you think about the exhibition so far?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Gallery attendees: It\u2019s amazing, I love all the work. I love everyone\u2019s interpretation of choice. You know, I think it\u2019s like hard to kind of put into words the kind of sadness and disappointment, and so I think that seeing things like objects or ephemeral objects or like, you know, art objects is a way of kind of way of distilling emotional states.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Claire Ashley is one of the featured artists who created painted inflatable sculptures, decked to the nines with \u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>Ashley: Jewelry, earrings, nipple rings, necklaces, bikinis, thongs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>She says the bold characters she creates changes the way she thinks about herself.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ashley: Trying to talk about my work through a feminist lens \u2026 and sort of taking up space as a female artist in the world and trying to be, again, as large and gregarious and obnoxious as I possibly can.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But if art affects both the audience and the artist, and art is advocacy, then how can advocacy work heal one\u2019s own mental health, when news like this \u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>News clips: \u201cThe Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.\u201d \u201cWhat this means to women is such an insult.\u201d \u201cThat they have eliminated a woman\u2019s constitutional right to an abortion.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Makes you feel\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>Gallery attendee: Heavy and dark. I feel like most of the dialogue or conversation that I\u2019ve heard around abortion has not been very bright.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Licensed psychotherapist and former Northwestern professor Joyce Marter has been working with clients for over 25 years. She says that advocacy work does more than help improve access to reproductive rights. It also improves access to inner peace.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marter: During this time many women are feeling marginalized, and that negatively impacts self-esteem and feelings of self-worth. Getting involved in advocacy work is empowering. When you&#8217;re in community with others, there&#8217;s validations, there\u2019s normalization. Advocacy work can be tremendously healing, especially for people who have been traumatized. And this is traumatizing.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood volunteer Shimara, who pounds the pavements of Chicago to inform community members about their rights, agrees that her work is about so much more than getting signatures.<\/p>\n<p><b>Shimara: We basically are professional people who get ignored. But that like 2% to 3% of people that we are able to connect with and get in touch with, it makes a world of a difference, you know? Just out here making a personal connection when people not only are you actually making change, who feel that change, you know, what I&#8217;m saying? You know, that this is OK, not a lost cause.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Addie Zwick is a program manager with Planned Parenthood of Illinois. She says that when things are happening at a high level like the Supreme Court, the idea to help can feel a bit out of reach.<\/p>\n<p><b>Zwick: You can feel a little bit helpless, I think, kind of like down here at just the individual level being like, well, what, how I can&#8217;t do anything about this decision that has been made. But you can. But you can&#8217;t necessarily directly combat the Dobbs decision. But you can do things at the local and state level.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>One way you can get involved? Lobby Day, when volunteers will go down to Springfield on May 3 and get trained on how to speak with their legislators on women\u2019s health care. Addie says the day is just as much about the volunteers as it is about the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Zwick: So I think it can be really empowering to feel like you suddenly like you have a voice, you have this person&#8217;s attention, at least for like 15 minutes. And you get to make an impact. So it can help make sense of the chaos a little bit because it gives you a tangible thing you can do and feel like you\u2019re making difference. Because you genuinely are.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, Addie says the word \u201cadvocacy\u201d can feel daunting, and you may think you have to have a lot of free time or money to make a difference. Joyce Marter says, that\u2019s simply not the case.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marter: Advocacy work can occur on so many different levels. So even how we speak and the words that we choose is advocacy. How we represent ourselves and how we treat others is advocacy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Which means that just taking in other people\u2019s work, like the art at Weinberg\/Newton Gallery, is beneficial \u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>Gallery attendee: I think I\u2019m enjoying just seeing, I guess, different processes of metabolizing a moment in culture and the different takes on a collective experience.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re still struggling to find peace amidst the chaos and confusion surrounding abortion access, Joyce says, take a breath\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>Marter: There\u2019s a technique called square breathing. It\u2019s very simple. Exhale out. And inhale to the count of four. Hold, two, three, four. Exhale, two, three, four. Hold, two, three, four.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFor Those Without Choice\u201d exhibition will be on display through April 15. To find other ways to volunteer, visit Planned Parenthood of Illinois\u2019 website.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Alexa Erbach, Medill Reports<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Alexa Erbach is a social justice graduate student at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexa_erbach\">@a<\/a><\/em><i>lexa_erbach.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note, March 30, 2023, 7:15 p.m.: This story has been updated to correct the name of the exhibition to &#8220;For Those Without a Choice&#8221; and to correct the date of Lobby Day for Planned Parenthood Illinois to May 3.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexa Erbach Medill Reports Almost a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many states continue to fight for abortion access while 13 have already banned most abortions. 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