For as long as I can remember, one of my biggest fears has been getting pregnant. During my adolescence, each of my sexual encounters was preceded by an inevitable paranoia that arose from the question: "What if I end up pregnant?" Despite having the privilege of attending a private school and receiving a quality education, I did not receive any kind of sexual education or guidance while growing up. On one hand, the code of conduct and content in schools’–whether public or private–are subject to religious ideologies. On the other hand, my mother passed away when I was fourteen years old, just around the age when a young teenager enters high school and begins to have a sexual awakening. During this stage in my life, I began to ponder on topics that felt important within my context and sense of identity. What does it mean to be a woman? Why is my own bodily autonomy restricted according to geographical location? What happens to young girls and women who find themselves in a far more disadvantaged position than me, but who share the same daunting fear of unwanted pregnancy, and do not want to become mothers? My home country of the Dominican Republic has the particularity of being one of few in the world with a complete ban and criminalization on the practice of abortion, as established by our penal code in 1844, which to this day remains unchanged. There are numerous consequences to this radical, complete ban, including a high rate of maternal mortality – every two days a woman dies from causes related to pregnancy and abortion. It is important to listen to the stories of women who have been silenced for so long. Scarlet Girls aims to broaden the peripheral vision on the subject of abortion, encourage introspection and stimulate critical thinking, starting from the premise: How speak of what cannot be spoken of?