How Can You Fight the Abortion Bans?

Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue   How can you fight the abortion bans across the country? Check out these links to actionable ways to fight for reproductive rights everywhere.   Center for Reproductive Rights   SisterSong...

“Mum” by Svetlana Sterlin

Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue   You’ve spent the last three hours screaming. On a hospital bed. In a small city. Your vision’s red. When the gloved hands touch you, they leave wet slops on your skin, and the red is there, and not in...

“Jane Roe, III” by Karina Lutz

Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue a historical fiction with apologies to Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), for I, too, use you day one   Yes, I was Jane Roe. Now you pat the covers around me smooth, my bed clean and dry for the meanwhile. Thank...

“Femininny” by D. J. Thielke

Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue   The graduation chat from my online fashion design degree was a mad scramble of affection and admiration and plans. New York, LA, Paris – they wrote the names of cities that exist only in the dreams of...

“In the Spirit of Motherhood” by Sara Karim

Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue No subject offers a greater opportunity for terrible writing than motherhood… To be fair, writing well about children is tough. You know why? They’re not that interesting. What is interesting is that despite...