 The only people she knew for certain that had been through the procedure were the women from the preview issue of "Ms".magazine, as the issue had featured the names of 53 women willing to come forward and speak about their abortion, and Bonavoglia has described the message as "the hardest letter I have ever written in my life".She reached out to people involved with reproductive rights and was met with success, as she received many phone calls from people willing to tell their stories, as well as from those who stated that they had received an abortion but were unwilling to publicly admit it out of fear of reprisal or backlash.