Whee! Now Let's Get On With It.

via Y'all, I am SO RELIEVED. My nerves thank you. Stupid Akin and Mourdock lost their stupid races, and so did stupid Romney. We get t...

Guest Post: An Abortion Love Story, Chapter II

Welcome back to Rebecca, a fellow abortioneer who’s agreed to spin us a MOTA (mates of the abortioneers) romance for the ages. You can go b...

Guest Post: An Abortion Love Story

Please give a warm bloggy welcome to Rebecca, a fellow abortioneer who’s agreed to spin us a MOTA (mates of the abortioneers) romance for t...

Bad Freaking News, with helpful annotations

AZ Abortion Law to Take Effect After Judge's Ruling Mon, Jul 30 2012, Reuters Arizona's law banning abortions after 20 weeks will g...

The Great Macy's Fourth of July Abortion Sale: Get 'em while you can! (offer valid only in Mississippi until 7/11/2012)

This is actually a breadline, not a bank run or a premodern Black Friday. But when I thought about it, the breadline matched the vibe of the...

Some days I can't bear to look

I know I haven't been around much. Frankly, keeping up with the insane and nonstop political assaults on abortion and related care has ...

An anniversary of a loss

Somehow it's already May 31 again. It's my sibling's twentieth birthday, and it's the third anniversary of Dr. George Tille...

Guest post: TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS! Or How We Missed the Real Story in Virginia

If you work in any field related to abortion, you probably remember that our so-called "win" in the battle over Virginia's ul...

Ask Aunt ABby: the morning-after STD test

Time: Surprisingly complicated! Spring has sprung here at Abortioneers HQ, and there's a new feature on the block! You've got questi...

Crushed

You guys, it passed . I really don't know what to say, do, feel. Much less what my colleagues in Georgia are feeling. Please give me a ...

Tuesday night homework: please help Georgia!

Can't you see my crazy eyes? Don't make me a law!  Friends, readers, countrypersons: lend me your eyeballs! I have an important pie...

The story of the time I was a dick

Why does she keep shouting ABORTION at me?   Yesterday our guest blogger Amy mentioned that phone calls about abortion care often sound li...

Guest post: Caring for the Ones Who Never Call

I'm incredibly pleased to introduce a guest writer today. Amy Littlefield is a former abortion counselor and founder of The Provider Pr...

I had a relative in town all week...

...and I just have some questions for my fellow abortioneers. Is this how it usually goes down for you? Sub-questions: Which one of you avo...

All stigma great and small

Gender Across Borders just hosted a fantastic series on stigma, including - shocker - abortion stigma. Stigma against providers as well as p...

What isn't about abortion?

Abortioneers. Tell me if you haven't met someone -- a young girl, an older woman, a mother of four, the grandmother of the patient, a su...

Please shut up so we can actually talk

Sometimes anti-abortion spokespeople act like it's huge news or a total outrage that abortion providers and abortion-rights advocates ar...

Guest post: Abortion Awakening

About a month ago, I was catching up with an old pal when my phone rang. I silenced it, and it rang again. And rang again. Three more times...

Guest post: Telling my patients "No"

Happy Friday! Please warmly welcome Candid Cannula, a fellow abortioneer who's graciously joined us for a guest post this morning. I lo...

Sweet land of liberty

Happy Independence Day. Between the 4th of July and the Republican primary campaign and anti-tax posturing in general, "freedom" ...