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

“So: four pregnancies, one miscarriage, one abortion. Correct?” A moment of frozen silence as the nurse briskly checks her notes before my routine appointment. “Um, not exactly. One was an ectopic pregnancy, so ….” “It didn’t terminate on its own, … Continue reading They’ll Come for Us All