The TikTokers Making ‘Get Ready With Me’ Videos of Their Abortions
glamour.com39 videos packed with , walking her audience through the entire experience and offering a day-by-day breakdown of her journey with Misoprostol and Mifepristone, colloquially known as the abortion pill.“I really wanted people to see that abortion doesn't need to be this traumatic, scary, huge decision,” she tells Glamour.Women often share their personal experiences online to help each other feel less alone, and in diary-style “get-ready-with-me” TikToks, popularized by creators like Alix Earle and from Real Housewives of New York, they discuss topics from their daily activities, to their relationships or even their finances.
These videos are seen as a comforting phenomenon because they make viewers feel like chatting with a close friend.So for sharing her abortion, Jessica decided on a similarly lighthearted tagline: “Have an Abortion on the Couch with Me.” This framing was intentional—she aimed to normalize abortion in a tense political climate.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Normalizing the procedure more cruciak than ever in the wake of the Dobbs decision, which ruled that Americans have no Constitutional right to an abortion, striking down the seminal Roe v.
Wade. Since Dobbs, 14 states in nearly all circumstances, with other states placing strict restrictions on the procedure. Iowa, for example, recently banned abortion after at six weeks gestation in most circumstances, before many people even know they’re pregnant.As a counter to the often heated and emotionally charged abortion debate, Wetzstein aimed to present her information in a .
She believes this approach helped some viewers of her videos steer clear of feeling unnecessarily traumatized by outside opinions while they navigated their own.
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