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As abortions is fraught with controversy and judgment, shaping painful stigma that may have ongoing ramifications throughout a woman’s life, this paper explain how abortion stigma is deeply entangled with social constructions of feminine ‘‘goodness,’’ such that it disproportionately impacts women and incentivizes concealment of a woman’s abortion status.