"Welcome! Welcome! This clinic will stay open!"

This past weekend Operation Rescue, an extremist anti-abortion group, planned to gather outside the doors of Dr. Carhart’s clinic where late...

Media Friday!

As you may or may not be aware, there is going to be a huge protest at Dr. Carhart's clinic this weekend . This is the first full scale ...

My dearest Cliche,

Disclaimer: This critique of mainstream media blasphemy and the raw dissection of another human being's lived experience is in no way re...

Othering Abortion

After reading Monday’s post by About a Girl, I reflected on my own dreams for the future of abortion access. As a future abortion provid...

Devil's Advocate

I'm all about abortion. I love that it's an option. I love that it's legal. I love that it's so common. But then again.... W...

I Had a Dream: Abortion Style

"The only difference between the American anti-abortion movement and the Taliban is about 8,000 miles." Dr Warren Hern, MD I have ...

I need a laugh...

One of the hardest parts about being an Abortioneer is what you hear -- working in the field, you hear some pretty awful stuff, anything inc...

Post-Abortion Care

"Do y'all just throw the baby in the garbage when you're done?" After almost three years at the clinic, that question stil...

Who Knew Funding Abortions Was So Easy?

Last Thursday, an article was published on Slate , “Fetal Extraction: Could a private abortion fund save health care reform?” I found a ...

Being There

(Note: It didn't actually look like this because I was there in the room; I think only fancy hospitals have real observation rooms.) For...

Prayer For My Sisters

A B O R T I O N N r v E ...

Magical Realism

Last chart. Saturday mayhem following a full moon eclipsed. Along with method of termination, sedation option, payment status, it has been ...

Antiabortion Extremists

For Friday's media day, I thought I'd share a piece that recently aired on the Rachel Maddow Show. She discusses one of my least fa...

Frazzle

Been thinking a lot recently about patients' appointment-making habits. They come in all different shapes and sizes here: 1. The patient...

I've recently read the poem, "The Abortion" by Anne Sexton for the first time. Strange that I am someone who does this work an...

The Secret

A group of women sat around a quietly gurgling fountain on a dry summer day, waiting for the door to the church conference room to be unlock...

The Walk to Work

Jesus loves you! Doesn't carry well through the misty Saturday morning air that smells like leaves and otherwise like hope. You have a b...