Abortion

The Abortion Bans

By Harper’s Magazine, on May 23, 2019

A discussion about the recent spate of legislation that seems to threaten a woman’s right to choose Read More

No Joe!

By Andrew Cockburn,

In the heart of the US Capitol there’s a small men’s room with an uplifting Franklin Delano Roosevelt quotation above the door. Making use of the facilities there after lunch…

Jane Does

By Madeleine Schwartz, Heather Booth, Laura Kaplan, Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, Judith Arcana,

From conversations between Madeleine Schwartz, a journalist, and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground railroad for reproductive care that was started…

With Child

By Kiera Feldman,

Ashley arrived for her prenatal appointment at Black Hills Obstetrics and Gynecology, in Rapid City, South Dakota, wearing a black zip-up hoodie and Converse sneakers.1 To explain her absence from…

Complicated Situation

By Rachel Nolan, on October 6, 2016

Fighting Zika in San Salvador Read More

Innocents

By Rachel Nolan,

Flor Arely Sánchez had been in bed with a fever and pains throughout her body for three days when a July thunderstorm broke over the mountainside. She got nervous when…

Lost Girls

By Sarah Dohrmann,

Meriem became a prostitute because she lost her virginity. She told me this in a house that I was renting in a Moroccan seaside town. It was 2008 and I…

We Do Abortions Here

By Sallie Tisdale, on August 7, 2015

A nurse's story Read More

Surviving a Failed Pregnancy

By Vanessa Gregory,

For eight weeks, the pregnancy seemed normal. I was thirty-six, and thus supposedly at a higher risk for everything, but I’d had no spotting, no unusual pain. I learned that…

Below the Belt

From emails sent in June to Michigan state legislator Lisa Brown after she spoke out against a bill restricting access to abortion. Brown ended her comments by saying, “Mr. Speaker,…

Social studies

By Thomas Frank,

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