Dr. George Tiller, 1941 - 2009

Dr. Tiller was one of the best abortion providers in the country. The world has lost an amazing doctor. He was a deeply compassionate and ca...

your regularly-scheduled blogger is on emotional hiatus

Dr. George Tiller shot and killed this morning. it's times like this when i get really inarticulate and all i can think of to say is FU...

The documentarian is an abortioneer

Every rare once-in-a-while an abortioneer comes along with the sheer and immaculate ability to fashion a show that is both heart-wrenching a...

Perspective

It's not uncommon for me to counsel women who are on the cusp of the gestational limits for abortions in my state.  That means they can ...

Fund Spotlight

Do you have a tv you can pawn, a stereo, what about jewelry? Some people do odd jobs like babysit or do hair. I spoke to a young patient a w...

To Our Googlers, Wherever You Are

why it's ok to have an abortion tell me it's ok to have an abortion how do you live after an abortion how do you live with yourself ...

Controlling Our Destiny

Women need to be able to control our destiny. When we cannot control our own reproductive abilities we lose the ability to control our lives...

World War, Never-Enough

T he war on Abortion is not The War . There are not two armed sides rumbling in another country where we send our people in camouflage and t...

The Dream Keeper

It is an incredibly strange thing to attend the annual conference for your former employer—an otherwise hostile work environment, trickling...

Commitment

The city's health department placed an ad on the bus. The Healthy Mothers program, a public health cause that I whole-heartedly support,...

Ambivalence

Ambivalence is hard. How many times have we all counseled someone who was ambivalent about her abortion decision? A lot of counselors I know...

The Abortion Girl

Sometimes, when my friends are introducing me to people, I am described as "the abortion girl." Or, if I meet someone, and then s...

lest anyone misunderstand: here's to escorts and guards

I was once escorted Through the doors of a clinic By a man in a bulletproof vest And no bombs went off that day -"hello birmingham...

Client AND employee satisfaction

I'm an "old timer" at my clinic. I've been there long enough to have days where I run out to my car after an 8-hour shift...

Sweet Charity

Fed the homeless today. I suppose after leaving Abortion Land there are some gaps in my good-deed-doings. So I hopped in a van with some fol...

Emotionally Spent

Each day I am supposed to be the answer to someone’s problems. Today might be the end of their world if they don’t handle this right now and...

"If you want to pray for me, Tell God to send me some money"

I wonder how many women keep a certain amount of money in their savings as their "emergency abortion fund"? I've had two frie...

Rules and Realities

Maybe you've heard about President Obama's budget plan, which the White House released a few days ago for consideration by Congress....

If they're cattle, am I an abortion farmer?

When I counsel women before their abortions, I do it with a sense of humor. It’s my nature to be a little bit silly, but when a client tol...

Intermission: Seedless and fruitful

I eat tangelos at such peak edibility that I eat three for dinner without missing other foods for even a moment. They unpeel all-in-one. The...

Privacy

It had just begun to warm up outside, and the antis were in full force. Spring is the season of rebirth, the perfect time of year to advocat...

Open Letter

You came to me for help. You’re 16, just a kid, and you have a kid. You didn’t realize how far along you were. You needed money and fast...

Unsung Heroes

So, yesterday's blog entry about Leila got me thinking about a film I recently watched called "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days."...

Alone

This past summer, I was interning at a large, urban community hospital that also provided abortion care. As a future abortion provider, my p...