Memphis hairstylist and abortion rights advocate Queen visits a new billboard on Interstate 55 in Arkansas, placed by the group Shout Your Abortion. She says messages such as "God's Plan Includes Abortion" give "courage" and "strength" to those traveling on this road to the closest abortion clinic for thousands of southern women. (Christopher Blank/WKNO)
"People make mistakes," says Queen, a Memphis hairstylist whose clients often confide those mistakes in her.
She's earned their trust, she says, because she's forthcoming about her own mistakes. That includes an accidental pregnancy decades ago at age 18, which she terminated when abortion was legal in all 50 states.
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