We'll Pray for You

2009 was a zig zag. The Obamas entered the White House and everyone danced pretty with a bohemian newness not yet felt as if we'd been s...

Faith

I am an atheist. There. I said it. I remember when I first came out as an atheist. It was generally anti-climactic; I had never believed in ...

Big Thanks

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel our work can be incredibly isolating. I don’t live in a big, urban area where I have the luxury...

Every Time a Bell Rings...

I worked with a young woman about a year ago that I found myself thinking about over the holidays, hoping she was okay. Let's call her S...

My Christmas Gift to You

Merry Christmas, happy Chanukah, happy Kwanzaa, happy Yule, merry Generic December Holiday. My gift to you, dear pro-choice, pro-abortion r...

All I Want for Christmas Is

the ability to exercise my legal right to choose what happens to my body - not some old white men who will never know what it means to have...

A written response to your ignorance:

In my family everything is a political debate, EVERYTHING. Very few of us agree on things like welfare, health care , elected officials, or ...

Ways To Not Understand "Choice," or Patriots don't get pregnant

A 'C'? A 'C'? I got a 'C' on my coathanger sculpture? How could anyone get a 'C' in coathanger sculpture? (...

Late Sunday coathanger amendment reading

Sorry we didn't have a full post for you today...Silky Laminaria's off on some exciting travels and we didn't plan a sub for her...

When was Evolution born?

There are a few things for you to know about our clinic so you will be prepared on the day of your appointment. #1 Please expect to spend a...

Ayuda

I help women. I help women who ask for abortion services. Who want them. Who believe that abortion is the key to their futures, their succe...

Abortion as Birth Control

"I'm pro-choice because a woman can choose what to do with her own body. If that's what she wants [abortion] to do to it, then...

For Your Reading Pleasure: late Monday link list!

Today I have some links for you, because I got too distracted reading really good stuff to write some of my own! But trust me, they're w...

To Zion

So I was rocking out to some Lauryn Hill the other day, and a song came on, "To Zion," that I hadn't heard in a longgggggggggg...

Irresponsible

Sometimes a particular woman's story really sticks with me. I was talking to a woman the other day who was distraught that she was pregn...

Needy

Last week, after talking with a patient about coping and depression, I implored her, "Please call me at the clinic if you need to. I...

Movers and Shakers: building this movement.

I'm from a southern town where french heritage lingers in our language mixed with some West African , Native American , and Haitian lan...

Stand-alone or lump-together?

Recently I was talking with someone whom I admire very much as a professional in the field -- someone who was a provider in the past but has...

An Abortion Mission

Abortion still seems to be a “fringe” topic. I have come to realize that there’s a difference between being “pro-choice” and really believ...

chestnuts roasting on an open blog

So I'm grappling with some homework on a chilly Saturday evening, but I always have a minute for something thoughtful and abortiony. Loo...

Fun Feminist Friday: Pussy Manifesto

Someday I want to write my own pussy manifesto. Until then, I refer to Bitch and Animal.

Our bodies, Our Stagnancy

And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into sp...