Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue The night I went into labor, a week early, I drove myself to the hospital, down streets devoid of people, thinking it was a false alarm. My son arrived with two whorls of hair atop his head, like twin...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue This morning I was scrolling through my Timehop feed and came across a photo from 2008. Timehop is an application that sifts through old photos and social media posts, and then shares with you what you...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I. Serenity: Metastatic cells. High numbers that should be low, and low numbers that should be high. Fertilization. Light and dark watercolor lines. Receptivity and reciprocity in all of microscopia...
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....
