It is time to celebrate "Back up your birth control Day"

So once upon a time I was denied access to emergency contraception by a medical provider. I hadn't had unprotected sex or missed a daily...

The upside of talking to strangers

just kidding Hanging out with foreigners is a whole other Thing for me. I don't mean foreigners exactly. What's a good word for ...

Ways To Get Screwed By A Pentagon, Henry Hyde, World Wars, and Other Violent Artifacts of the Twentieth Century

[As a promised follow-up to  this post .] I'm visiting home this week and won't be back for months, and I can't safely stay preg...

The purse strings are so close, yet so far: Abortion coverage and DC sovereignty

Yellow = no lifesaving needle-exchange programs. White = go for it! I used to live and work in Washington, DC, a place where you'd thi...

Taking on the Torch

A week after the murder of Dr. Tiller, pro choice doctors, advocates, counselors, and health care providers are still thinking, “now what”...