Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Eventually I decide that I have gotten as much as I can from research. I am overcome by the feeling that I must do something. I need to see a doctor; have this pregnancy confirmed; put in motion the...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I have given birth to three sons—two living and one dead. The one who died was my first, when I was 22; he lived for an hour. He was a breech birth, so I needed a Caesarean—I never held him or saw him....
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue In 1765, the first Magdalene Asylum in Ireland opened. Named after Mary Magdalene, the prostitute who sought redemption in the Bible, this was a Christian church-run institution for “fallen women.”...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I find out I probably can’t get pregnant during the worst month of my life. Those are two half-lies, only because the actual words my doctor used were “your uterus is a tricky environment,” and the...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue A group of men followed us down Broadway, the bustling honky tonk district in Nashville, Music City, U.S.A. They shouted to us: “Ladies, ladies, LAAADDDIIIIEES.” We stopped on the street corner and...
