I have to confess, I’m jealous of Carole Joffe. Not just because she gets to teach and live in Northern California, and not just because she gets to travel around the country interviewing experts in the reproductive rights movement. I’m jealous because her new book, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism [...]
It’s March, ya’ll. That means it’s time to celebrate Women’s History Month. I have always been intrigued by women’s history – I love learning about women who have done outrageous acts and paved the way for our generation to have the freedoms we have today. I thought that I’d kick off the [...]
I came to a scary realization not to long ago: When I was 18 and pregnant, I went to a crisis pregnancy center. Knowing what I do now about CPCs, I realize how easy I got off and shudder to think how bad it could have gotten. Then again, I tend to be pretty strong [...]
Feminist Books for Five-Year-Olds – The Guardian
One Family’s Struggle With Abortion & the Catholic Church – Truthout
We’re Pro-Choice Because We Have a Vision – Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
An Abortion Mission – Abortioneers
Guest blogger Paige Schilt is a dyke mama, a “low-femme” nerd, an activist, and a part-time professor of Feminist Studies. She writes about making family with queer cultural values. She holds a Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and has published scholarly articles on queer culture [...]
Our predecessors risked everything to protect a woman’s right to choose. If we want, we can defeat the Stupak amendment.
I am reading an inspiring book, Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. From free speech rights to the gay rights movement, the book recounts numerous [...]
I revisited Choice this week and found myself having trouble deciding which story to choose until I came across Kate Maloy’s A Normal Woman. With all the goings on with the Tiller murder, this story got me thinking on how if the right would just listen to women and maybe investigate a little bit as [...]
I picked up this wonderful book the other day at the library called Choices. I fell in love with it right away as it is emblazoned with a pregnancy test on the cover. It is a collection of true stories about the kinds of choices women make, or should be able to make, concerning reproduction [...]
So if you went to college and took a lit class, chances are you were forced to read a lot of things you didn’t want to, like Hemingway. I, for one, am not a fan of his with the exception of his short story Hills Like White Elephants. I remember where I was when I [...]
I recently tried to tackle Cynthia Gorney’s book Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars. I will admit that I had quite a bit of trouble getting through it.
The book is an account of the early years of the abortion struggle and the doctors, nurses, clergy and other persons involved in greasing [...]
