Her Body, Her Life

Working in an abortion clinic is a job, but its also more than a job. In my job I have to answer questions for women about their bodies and ...

What are you doing here? Go read this Nation article!

In the past year-and-a-half-ish, there's been a lot of noise (well, relative to the usual silence, at least) about women self-medicatin...

All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from Working at an Abortion Clinic

Item #9: 1. It pays to be nice When I'm taking payments, some clients are a few dollars short. If they've been a pleasure to work...

Accidents Will Happen

Oh, Canada! I've been enjoying one of my guiltiest pleasures, Degrassi: The Next Generation, via Netflix. Not only do I enjoy the melodr...

The Key to World Peace

Lately, I have had quite a commute to the hospital in the morning. Fortunately, this gives me plenty of time to catch up on the real world....

The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion

For today's post, I'd like to share something a friend sent me that I found very moving. It's an article called, "The Only...

Guest post: Sons

A warm welcome-back to deliverance , who joins us again with a new guest post :) ******************************** “wishes for sons” by Lucil...

Secret Keepers

We don't strap women to tables and violate them. We walk them through a medical process. When I speak to a woman and reassure her that i...

Reading and ranting: when theory doesn't meet practice

So I'm reading this paper. It's about desired and actual fertility levels in developing countries. And it's written by...an econ...

Sisterhood of the traveling mesh underpants*

"Tell your abortion story!" we implore you. "Erase the stigma!" "I'm here to listen." In nearly every c...

Transition

Doing some research at work on contraceptive prevalence in some developing countries to appease a lazy donor (duh, measuredhs.com ), and we ...

Moving On

I am grateful for Sparky's last post about "Dr. Rude." I, too, have run into a Dr. Rude, and it's so not fun. What I - sad...

some abortion clinic

I recently saw a quote from a president of a I hate women and their reproductive freedom organization. The quote goes as follows: “No one g...

Let's Watch a Video

So, this young lady has a lot of opinions on abortion. Many of which are ridiculous and laughable. I would like to highlight my favorites an...

Guest post: My Truth with Abortion

Hi everyone. We'd like you to meet deliverance , who's graciously agreed to be our guest here for several upcoming Thursdays. As del...

Abortion on TV

I found out recently that the a couple of shows, both on major networks, produced episodes featuring abortion as a main story line. And not...

"With all that you have to deal with..."

"Can I ask you a question? With all that you have to deal with, why do you still do this?" "Because I remember when it was il...

Dr. Rude

Within the field of abortion it can be very challenging to have conversations about the difficulties we face, because there is a fear that a...