Britney Spears Gives Courageous Voice to the Pain of Coerced Abortion

The music video for Britney Spears’s “Everytime” makes so much more sense now. In her new memoir, The Woman within Me, the pop star writes about the abortion she was pressured into by her boyfriend and fellow Mickey Mouse Club star Justin Timberlake.

In the 2003 ballad, she sang: “Every time I try to fly I fall. / Without my wings / I feel so small. / I guess I need you, baby. / And every time I see you in my dreams, / I see your face. / It’s haunting me. / I guess I need you, baby.”