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Quick Hit: An abortion clinic counselor writes about her own pregnancy

By Maya | Published: May 23, 2013
TweetI really love this piece by an abortion clinic counselor about her experiences working at the clinic while she was pregnant with a very wanted–and ultimately failed–pregnancy of her own. One of my biggest pet peeves is anti-choicers who claim that pro-choice advocates refuse to acknowledge the emotional complexity–and physical reality–of abortion. Patricia O’Connor shows [...]
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Quick Hit: Our Blood and Pain

By Amy S. Choi | Published: April 8, 2013
TweetThe artist Molly Crabapple shared her extraordinary personal story on Vice, writing with searing honesty about her abortion. This essay joins a canon of brave and brutal stories. An excerpt: Compulsively, I searched out abortion stories online. Women for whom it had meant nothing. Women for whom it had meant everything. Most of all, women who [...]
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Silence equals shame: Stepping into the light of my abortion

By Maya | Published: March 25, 2013
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by award-winning poet, activist, and transformational leader Sonya Renee Taylor. It accompanies her video for Advocates For Youth’s 1 in 3 campaign. Check out Sonya’s full bio here. My father called me yesterday, after stumbling upon a Facebook ad that lead him to an interview I did for the [...]
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A character on Grey’s Anatomy had an abortion

By Maya | Published: September 26, 2011
Tweet*spoiler alert* As a long-time advocate for showing abortion on television and a devoted Grey’s Anatomy fan (seriously, I even stuck with it through the ill-advised supernatural turn), I was thrilled about what happened on last week’s season premiere. It was one of those rare television events: a character actually got an abortion. She didn’t [...]
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