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Women running for office in the U.S. are telling their abortion stories on the campaign trail

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Eva Burch , a state senator in Arizona , is running for reelection in 2024 .

Burch is part of an unofficial cohort of women who are running for office in the 2024 election cycle and telling their abortion stories on the campaign trail.

Their lived experiences have collided with a unique and fraught moment in U.S. history.

Three women told their abortion stories while campaigning for state congressional seats.

The vividness of these stories can create collective change because the emotional resonance is potent.

Marilyn Lands , Marilyn Burch , Alyssa Gonzales and Marilyn Vilardi all had abortions for medical reasons in wanted pregnancies.

Their stories transformed what could have been hyperlocal elections into incredible public affairs.

Allie Phillips , a 29-year-old from Tennessee , is running for a seat in the state House .

She and her husband learned they were pregnant in November of 2022 , and she announced as much on TikTok .

Her doctors found that the fetus had developed semilobar holoprosencephaly , a rare disease in which the brain does not properly divide into two hemispheres.