We’re Not Sorry. Still.
by Jennifer Baumgardner Just over eight years ago, I decided to make a T-shirt that said “I had an abortion.” ...
by Jennifer Baumgardner Just over eight years ago, I decided to make a T-shirt that said “I had an abortion.” ...
by Amanda Marcotte As a journalist who specializes in reproductive health, I have the unique opportunity to meet a variety ...
by Susan Elizabeth Davis On a bleak December day in 1979, I had an epiphany: I would write a pro-choice ...
By Erika M. Staub RN, PHN and Jacqui R. Quetal RN, FNP February 28, 2012 Nurses are trusted professionals, and ...
by Margie Kelly Abortion opponents long ago slapped their brand on the fetus, parading giant graphic images of fetuses in ...
by Jasmine Burnett The Black feminist group, the Combahee River Collective, described its beginnings by saying: “It was our experience and disillusionment ...
by Priscilla Smith While watching the totally hip video of the Orthodox Reggae beat rapper Matisyahu’s song Miracle, I began to ...
By Judith Arcana February 16, 2012 Im a Jane. Another Jane said when she heard me use the past tense ...
by Jeannie Ludlow “You know, illegal abortions aren’t all bad.” A few years ago, I found myself saying this to ...
by Justine Goodman I am the daughter of a woman who wrote in 1970 that “involuntary motherhood is slavery.” That ...
by Faith Pennick The debate over reproductive choice continues to burn, even with a pro-choice president currently in the White ...
by Andrea Plaid I’m not an aberration because I’m a childless, employed, divorced, college-educated Black cisgender woman — regardless of what the ...
by Sarah Flint Erdreich I was 13 years old during the anti-choice “Summer of Mercy” in 1991 when anti-choice activists ...
by Susie Day Dear Western Civilization – My name is Mary. Not Mary of Had-a-Little-Lamb fame. Holy Mary. Or, if ...
By Sara Benincasa February 9, 2012 I’m a comedian, not a scientist or another type of professional smart person, so ...
by Eleanor J. Bader When retired clinic owner Patricia Baird-Windle contacted me in 1998 and invited me to collaborate with ...
by The Editors “Abortion is a matter of the heart,” the late Dr. George Tiller once said. “For until we ...
by Barbara Santee I am 74 years old. When I was 18, I had an illegal abortion that nearly killed ...
By Rev. Debra W. Haffner February 2, 2012 I have been an advocate for safe and legal abortion for more ...
by The Editors A new study puts another face on women’s reproductive decision-making during an economic downturn. It indicates that ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg I remember the first time I heard about Medical Students for Choice. I don’t remember the ...
by Lori Adelman In 1970, something electrifying filled the air in New York. Feminist organizing was in high gear. Betty ...
By Linda Weber January 26, 2012 Imagine the whole universe — the vast expanse of reality in which all things ...
The Art Perspective provides a visual and audio forum for artists to exhibit their art and present exciting responses to ...
By Marge Piercy An embryo is precious;a woman is a vessel. A fertilized egg is a person;a woman is indentured ...
by Aram A. Schvey What’s chutzpah? Until December 2011, I would have deferred to the classic definition in Leo Rosten’s The ...
by Ayesha Chatterjee and Judy Norsigian As current staff members at Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), an organization that has advanced ...
By Gabrielle Korn January 20, 2012 It’s no secret that the United States is in the midst of a War ...
by Carol Mason A new anti-abortion DVD is being distributed on America’s campuses. It is called 180 to suggest that society has ...
by Corinne A. Carey Our nation’s health care system is in a period of rapid and dramatic change, and the ...
by Carol Downer If working in the abortion movement for over 40 years qualifies me to gaze into my crystal ...
By Sunsara Taylor January 18, 2012 The first time I stood up for abortion rights was back in 1994 in ...
By Manis Rayles January 18, 2012 I am a believer. If I had to name my religion, it would be ...
by Martha Burk Title IX has been a part of our body of law for 40 years, and it has ...
By Cindy Cooper May 5, 2012 In 1892, suffragist and temperance leader Frances Elizabeth Willard had a truly wild idea: ...
by Gabrielle Korn I have a question. Who decided that sports – competitive, complicated, labor-intensive, rules-driven – are fun? I don’t ...
by Laura Pappano As a blogger and reader of women’s sports blogs, I’ve learned that one subject reliably spurs sharp ...
by Molly M. Ginty Gathered in a circle on a rainbow of yoga mats, tucking braids, curls and dreadlocks into ...
Featuring the poetry of Kathleen Aguero, Judith Barrington, Carolyn Martin, and Penelope Scambly Schott; Curated by Poetry Co-editor Judith Arcana. ...
by The Editors NEW YORK | The convergence of two events this summer brings excitement and attention to women in ...
by Louise Melling April 15, 2012 For nearly two years, legislatures across the country have proposed and passed an unprecedented ...
by Ariel Dougherty Forty years ago, at the same time that Title IX was passed by the federal government, Sheila Paige and ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg April 10, 2012 When two Barnard college students arrived to escort patients into a New York ...
by Lu Bailey This year, my 10 year-old told me that she wanted to try out for the cheerleading squad ...
by Rachel Toor Because I never played sports, because I went with my feminist mother to 1970s rallies and women’s ...
By Charlotte Taft April 3, 2012 As I write this, I’m not sure whether reproductive rights activists are in a ...
by Chané Jones and The Feminist Press An exploration about sports soon reveals that it is about much more than ...
by Lindsay Parks Pieper Renée Clarke towered over all of her competitors in the 1976 La Jolla tennis tournament. Aided ...
By Ann Rose March 28, 2012 Since 1976 when the Hyde Amendment passed, I’ve been hopelessly annoyed with the pro-choice ...
by Risa Isard It’s a Sunday night in June in 2007 and my best friends and I lie on the ...
by Alex Channon Sex segregation in sports is so widely accepted that it is hardly ever discussed. But this outdated ...
by Jane Schonberger Growing up in the ’70s, I loved watching the Olympics. As an athlete myself, I sat mesmerized ...
by Mauricio Espinoza Jordan leaped to grab that ball as if nothing else in the world mattered, the way good ...
The Art Perspective provides a visual and audio forum for artists to exhibit their art and present exciting responses to ...
By Janna Frieman March 22, 2012 In January, a woman prematurely gave birth to twins in her cell within 24 ...
by Tim Grainey The United States women’s national soccer team played to a television audience of 40 million in 1999, ...
by Christine Stark I could say soccer saved me, but it wouldn’t be true. I saved myself, as a girl, ...
by The Editors The convergence of two events this summer brings excitement and attention to women in sports — the ...
by Susan J. Bandy As a former athlete and a graduate student in Sports Studies, I embraced feminism in the ...
by Andrew D. Linden To watch his daughter, Angela, play quarterback in 2011, former National League Football quarterback Mark Rypien, ...
By David Burress March 14, 2012 The right-wing anti-abortion movement’s every argument against abortion has a coherent pro-violent subtext. There ...
by Laura A. Shamas The physically talented woman-competitor is an amazing feature of many timeless tales. She runs faster than ...
By Sarah Morison March 8, 2012 In August 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unprecedented visit to the ...
by Jennifer Baumgardner Just over eight years ago, I decided to make a T-shirt that said “I had an abortion.” ...
by Amanda Marcotte As a journalist who specializes in reproductive health, I have the unique opportunity to meet a variety ...
by Susan Elizabeth Davis On a bleak December day in 1979, I had an epiphany: I would write a pro-choice ...