open your ears

I, admittedly, have never had an abortion. I am so very grateful for my legal right to choose to have an abortion, but am equally grateful ...

No alarms & no surprises please.

There's a song off a great album, OK Computer by Radiohead, called " No Surprises ," which I consider to be my work anthem. I ...

Today, I'm thankful for...

Some families go around their Thanksgiving table taking turns listing what they're thankful for. Some families aren't all at one ta...

Thankful

On this eve of Thanksgiving, I am thinking about all of the things I am thankful for this year. I am thankful for having a job and health i...

Burning Negativity

This weekend I sat in a circle with my sisters and my dad and we had a bonfire. A healing ritual if you will. We burned hurt, anger, fear...

Sometimes a little reminder

this is how I feel while counseling For the last several years one of my guiding principles has been that you should do what you're will...

Ughhhhhhh

Please excuse the ongoing interruption in service. Your regularly-scheduled Monday Abortioneer is currently somewhere unexpected. Namely, on...

Human Kindness

Why are so many people afraid of the word abortion? Even though 1 in 3 women will have an abortion before the age of 45, even though it is...

Activist Friday!

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with my fellow students about the Stupak/Pitts Amendment. This amendment, which has been with us ...

Don't Stop Me Now

Today, I'm gonna have myself an abortioneery time I feel sad that ladies in this countryyyyyy Are pregnant in their vag-ees And they don...

Dumb

I had always wondered about this, but never really had an appropriate context in which to pose the question. Here goes: If Catholics are,...

Strong Women

I just want to say that I h-e-a-r-t Sonya Renee, a beautiful, strong poetess who does lots of poetry slams. Yes, I love poetry. Yes, I'm...

Prochoice.org

The name of this organization has often conjured images of abortioneers lined like soldiers fighting the war on abortion in my head. But ala...

Patient "support persons," and a reader poll!

Allied blog plug: If you aren't reading Every Saturday Morning, you should be! Last month, this post brought me close to tears, tears o...

Compassion Challenge

Fetal anomalies are supposed to be the no brainers (uh,no pun intended). They’re supposed to be heartbreaking, but they’re also supposed t...

Speaking and Sharing and Safety and Silence

On the evening of June 1, as we held a vigil for Dr. George Tiller, the first US abortion provider murdered in over ten years and a longtime...

Fund Spotlight

As we all probably now know, the United States House of Representatives passed their version of health care reform Saturday night. In order ...

Matters of the heart.

I love abortion. ( I said it out loud in class) and had no idea I would get such a response. Even people who I thought were as "liberal...

the internal clitoris

for fun and education

Raping me softly

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that th...

Barrier

I had a new experience last Saturday. I served as an escort at a highly-targeted Planned Parenthood in my city. It was surreal. It was scary...

Worried

I can’t stop thinking about a patient – I’ll call her Ellie – who came to our clinic for an abortion yesterday. She drove eight hours, some...

future abortion providers

Do you ever wonder how abortion providers get to becoming abortion providers? Well, in my experience, they come about it one of two ways. Ei...

Scare Tactics

One of the worst aspects about being an Abortioneer is the scare tactics. I'm not talking like Freddy Krueger. Mummies. Chainsaw-wieldin...