All posts tagged "Abortion"
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We Can’t Let After Tiller Slide
By Viki Peer I was so excited to attend a university-wide screening of After Tiller, the 2013 Emmy-winning documentary about the four remaining doctors who...
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3 poems by Mary Tres
“Pocket Change” The gap between my thighs Is less than equivalent To that between our pay. ** “Caution: Hard (Hat) Area”...
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LET’S PLAY…An Anti-Racist, Feminist WOMAN CARD
By Zillah Eisenstein COUNT US IN!!! “We” are at the ready to play the WOMAN card. But what is an anti-racist feminist supposed to do?...
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#shoutyourabortion
By Britta Child ‘Tis true, I had been careless for far longer than my allotted grace period when I found out I was pregnant. Years of...
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The Things I Knew
By MaryAnn Kozlowski I always knew my body was a battleground. I’d been fighting with it for years – exercising until I could barely stand...
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Tenderness
By Laurelin I was 22 when I had my abortion. The images that fill my head of that day remain White sheets Tools laid out...
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Saying It Loudly: I Had an Abortion at Planned Parenthood
By Joanna Christi I’m saying this loudly. I’m saying this loudly because it needs to be said. When I was in college, I was raped....
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Finding My Voice: A Reflection On My Abortion(s)
By Jasmine Alvarez 1. careless/irresponsible/trash adjectives that some (most) might use to describe a woman who CHOSE abortion not once/not twice three times. Typical HOODRAT...
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#ShoutYourAbortion: The Ethics of Reproduction
It is hard not to be in a state of rage when I re-member this painful herstory and simultaneously reflect upon the contemporary reality that...
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A Last Resort
By Gabrielle Daniels It was a Saturday. I think that I walked all the way home from San Francisco General to Church and 26th. For...
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#ShoutYourAbortion: I’ve Had Two Abortions and I Don’t Regret Either of Them
By Ashleigh Shackelford The first time I was pregnant, it was as a result of rape by my then boyfriend’s close friend. I was only...
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Manic Pixie Dream Cervix
By Sarah Cook but she is like a glass woman one ingredient, transparent a hunter of too bad treasure * why can’t she...
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The Preacher’s Daughter
By Sharon Rothberg At my wedding in the summer of 1964, I was 22 years old. Marty and I had dated for three years, and...
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A Midwife’s Story
By Chloë Lubell There’s nothing dramatic about my abortion story. I had been with my partner for five years already. It was the summer before...
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Another Time
By Clementine Burnley This is the life that will not be What I imagined for you and me I have gathered information Groped for...
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A Love Note to Women Who’ve Had Voluntary Abortions
I had an abortion when I was a sophomore in high school. I had another when I was a sophomore in college. Before then and...
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The Pope and His “Patriarchy Problem,” Again
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this on the train traveling from Milan to Venice, Italy. Many people here are excited that Pope Francis arrives...
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Call for Submissions: “Our Abortions, Our Lives”
Our Abortions, Our Lives: A Forum In the face of repeated attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, stigmatize abortion, impede reproductive justice, punish mothers, disavow children,...
