Men On How Abortion Changed Their Lives

Refinery29 UK
Mar 14, 2020 · 7 min read
Photographed by Rockie Nolan

“I didn’t really feel like I had a right to feel any kind of outward emotion about it,” 35-year-old Jon Pollock, a health and safety manager in civil construction, is telling me. There’s a tangible apprehension in his voice — he’s choosing words carefully — because we’re talking about something that he’s only shared with three other people in the last decade. Something that is not for his kind, if you listen to public…

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