AFTER “Has the bleeding subsided at all?” Doctor Ziegler has hair that probably used to be deep, deep brown but is now turning silver at the roots. She’s attempted to tie it back into a loose ponytail but there are … Continue reading They Don’t Make Bereavement Cards for This

It was 1969, my last year of grad school. We’d been married a few months. Pete was ten years older than me. I hadn’t yet figured out the role I was supposed to play with his two kids. His divorce … Continue reading ROE VS WADE AND ME

Content note: Abortion, pain, medical procedure, descriptive medical language.   It was 1993, and I was a young rebel in the midst of ending a relationship of four years which had driven me to the edge of my sanity. In … Continue reading Surviving My Illegal Abortion