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The Cafe at On The Issues Online Magazine is deepening the conversations by continually adding the insights of progressive writers, thinkers and artists on the topics we address.

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  • All
  • 2008 Fall Café
  • 2008 Spring Café
  • 2008 Summer Café
  • 2009 Fall Café
  • 2009 Spring Café
  • 2009 Summer Café
  • 2009 Winter Café
  • 2010 Spring Café
  • 2010 Winter Café
  • 2011 Fall Café
  • 2011 Spring Café
  • 2011 Summer Café
  • 2011 Winter Café
  • 2012 Spring Café
  • 2012 Winter Café
2012 Spring Café

Occupying the Air: Banner Wave Truths about Abortion & Rights

By Elizabeth Creely January 19, 2012 On the first day of 2012, an abortion clinic in Florida was firebombed. The …

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2012 Spring Café

What’s “Level” and Fair for Trans, Intersex and Disabled Athletes?

By Avory Faucette May 21, 2012 As the Summer 2012 Olympics in London gear up, the media will be presenting …

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2012

Socially Prominent Sears Broke Victorian Records

By Peggy Miller Francke May 10, 2012 The multi-talented sports champion Eleonora Sears died four years before Title IX became …

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2012 Spring Café

A Woman, Without A Fish, On A Bicycle

By Cindy Cooper May 5, 2012 In 1892, suffragist and temperance leader Frances Elizabeth Willard had a truly wild idea: …

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2012 Spring Café

Anti-Abortion Legislators Get Flak

by Louise Melling April 15, 2012 For nearly two years, legislatures across the country have proposed and passed an unprecedented …

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2012 Spring Café

Volunteer Abortion Funds Ramp Up in New York, Nationally

by Mary Lou Greenberg April 10, 2012 When two Barnard college students arrived to escort patients into a New York …

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2012 Spring Café

Reproductive Rights: Sinking or Swimming?

By Charlotte Taft April 3, 2012 As I write this, I’m not sure whether reproductive rights activists are in a …

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2012 Spring Café

Fighting Back with Sperm Personhood and Viagra Limitations

By Ann Rose March 28, 2012 Since 1976 when the Hyde Amendment passed, I’ve been hopelessly annoyed with the pro-choice …

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2012 Spring Café

Reproductive Health Locked Up

By Janna Frieman March 22, 2012 In January, a woman prematurely gave birth to twins in her cell within 24 …

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2012 Winter Café

After Sandy: The Nature of Rebuilding From the Heart of an Architect

by Carol Clouse In the surge of Sandy, I sat alone in my home in southeast Pennsylvania, and listened to …

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2012 Spring Café

Violence is the Unifying Narrative of Anti-Abortion Chatter

By David Burress March 14, 2012 The right-wing anti-abortion movement’s every argument against abortion has a coherent pro-violent subtext. There …

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2012 Spring Café

Help Global Victims of War Rape: End Anti-Abortion Restrictions

By Sarah Morison March 8, 2012 In August 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unprecedented visit to the …

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2012 Winter Café

AFTER HURRICANE SANDY: Long Beach Psychologist Copes And Helps Neighbors

by Mary W. Quigley On Monday evening, October 29, as super storm Sandy made landfall on Long Island, Laurie Nadel …

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2012 Winter Café

Finland and Domestic Violence: The Strong Nordic Woman is in Trouble

by Catia Bruno Finland is an amazing country, especially if you happen to be a woman. This was the first …

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2012 Winter Café

“Jollywood, Afghanistan” Teenage Girls Create And Perform Their First Play

by Sahar Muradi In eastern Afghanistan under the glow of an April sun and the sweet scent of orange blossoms, …

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2012 Spring Café

Professionals and Activists: Nursing Students for Choices

By Erika M. Staub RN, PHN and Jacqui R. Quetal RN, FNP February 28, 2012 Nurses are trusted professionals, and …

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2012 Winter Café

A ‘Stubborn Little Hold on Life’ An abortion before Roe v Wade

by Frances Karlen Santamaria I’m not sure how or when I first heard that my mother had an abortion before …

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2012 Spring Café

Being A Jane: Past, Present, and Future Tense

By Judith Arcana February 16, 2012 Im a Jane. Another Jane said when she heard me use the past tense …

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2012 Winter Café

WRITING ON THE BODY AT THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

by The Editors Only a few more days to register for a course on “Writing on the Body.” Registration closes …

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2012 Winter Café

Merle Hoffman on Eldrige & Co

by The Editors Merle Hoffman, President and CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Center and the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of On the …

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2012 Spring Café

Lady-Parts, The Church and Planned Parenthood

By Sara Benincasa February 9, 2012 I’m a comedian, not a scientist or another type of professional smart person, so …

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2012 Spring Café

Abortion is a Moral Decision

By Rev. Debra W. Haffner February 2, 2012 I have been an advocate for safe and legal abortion for more …

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2012 Winter Café

Review: City of Soldiers: A Year of Life, Death, and Survival in Afghanistan

by Elayne Clift City of Soldiers: A Year of Life, Death, and Survival in Afghanistan Author:  Kate Fearon Interlink Books, …

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2012 Winter Café

Entrusted with Women’s Sacred History

by Jennifer Baumgardner In 2004, frustrated by the gridlock around abortion, I embarked on an awareness campaign to put a …

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2012 Spring Café

A Counselor’s View: Embracing a Holistic Perspective of Abortion

By Linda Weber January 26, 2012 Imagine the whole universe — the vast expanse of reality in which all things …

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2012 Spring Café

“Marching Together,” Online: Trust Women Week and the Silver Ribbon Campaign

By Gabrielle Korn January 20, 2012 It’s no secret that the United States is in the midst of a War …

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2012 Spring Café

The First — and the Next — Time I Stood Up for Abortion Rights

By Sunsara Taylor January 18, 2012 The first time I stood up for abortion rights was back in 1994 in …

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2012 Spring Café

Intimate Wars: A Faithful Feminist

By Manis Rayles January 18, 2012 I am a believer. If I had to name my religion, it would be …

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2012 Spring Café

Intimate Wars: Sex is Intimate, So is Pregnancy

By K Salis January 18, 2012 War can be an intimate experience, often in a deeply personal way, even though …

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2012 Spring Café

Intimate Wars Blog Series: My Abortion Story

By Merle Hoffman January 17, 2012 It’s been over 40 years since I founded Choices Women’s Medical Center, one of the …

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2012 Spring Café

My Body, My Choice, My Intimate War

By Abigail Collazo January 17, 2012 What does war look like Taste like Smell like Images and soundtracks come to …

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2012 Spring Café

Discussing Abortion During Polite Dinner Conversation

By Sarah Flint Erdreich January 17, 2012 It had been a lovely wedding, and now the reception was packed. We …

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2012 Winter Café

Where’s The Women’s Room This Year?

by Carol Jenkins It was my brilliant friend, the writer Marilyn French, who presciently and prodigiously wrote about the war …

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