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...

Dirty Little Secret

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we hide who we are and choices we make in our lives from others to avoid judgment. Why do we do ...

Gate Keeping Freedom

She called me with tears in her voice, the bruises on her face had only begun to swell. She told her boyfriend she was going to have an abo...

Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out...

Please pardon me as I slam slight light on the head and heart (?) of a potential patient, a fellow woman and an absurdly, dangerous heroine ...

Army of None

A spirit inspired by romantic notions of honor, a kind of morality founded on the fashion of the age, can only be felt by a few officers, wh...

Mile a Minute

Lots of abortiony thoughts passing through my head lately. Had to accumulate them over the course of two weeks while waiting to post. Anxiou...

Proud

Abortion work is hard. Rewarding, but hard. One of the hard things about this work is that the rewards are not external. It's rare we g...