The Least Balanced Among Them

Sparky wrote a post about the Rachel Maddow documentary "The Assassination of Dr. Tiller." I watched it, and thought it was very ...

Alone

This past week I have unfortunately been spending most of my time with a loved one at the hospital. This person is extremely important in m...

Staying Motivated

We know doing direct service abortion work can take its toll. After reading our dear Desembarazame's recent post, Trust , I got to think...

Thanks, Rachel Maddow

you are the shit If you haven't already heard of or watched it, last night Rachel Maddow's show did a special episode on Dr. Tiller...

A surprisingly delicate subject*

Lately I've been spending more shifts in the surgical suite, where I check on patients' wellbeing after their abortions, sterilize ...

Trust

I'm not an optimist by nature, but by God, I force myself to be one. There's enough negativity in and around abortion care; no one ...

Nice save

Ahh, I just love the smell of lunacy early in the morning. The time is upon us: " 40 Days for Life " is well under way across the ...

About Face

The sisters opened the clinic named after their dead mother three years after the Supreme Court acknowledged a woman’s right to privacy not ...

IUDs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mirena IUD I have an IUD . I am pretty much in love with it. Over the years, I had heard all sorts of things about them, but the biggest thi...

Wordplay

In a recent chat with fellow Abortioneers, the question arose of whether it is possible to work in Abortion Land without being a feminist. A...

Laughter is the Best Medicine

Is it just me, or do Abortioneers have a wickedly amazing sense of humor? Humor as a coping mechanism cannot be underrated. Our work is incr...

Love and Rage

I often transport patients after their abortion. After the doctor has completed the abortion, I help the woman off the procedure table and i...

Beyond the First Trimester

Pictured: Misoprostol tablets Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like most people who know what's up know the gist of a first tri...

26 by 26

As I enter my final weeks of marathon training, the number 26 is constantly looming overhead. Yet when I hear the number 26, my very first, ...

The Uterus Is Not a Haunted House

Please pardon my absence. I was fine-tuning my wand. No burning-out here. Just burning-in.* The abortion clinic waiting room reminds me of t...

Abortion Doulas

This past week, I had the extraordinary opportunity to witness an abortion doula at work. We were performing a 12 week termination on a wom...