Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Philosophy Cheever was skimmed off the end of the 60’s, a child of hippies who grew up in California and moved to our little town in the godforsaken country of dying dairy farms in southeast Wisconsin....
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Twenty-five is not seventeen. Essie’s body is different now. As she climbs down the subway stairs, her knees twinge, clicking through the motions. She can feel it, each step-down. She doesn’t run down...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Dear, you said you felt bad for anything that’s had to live inside My Uterus. I suppose, because I refuse to allow you access to police it. see, My Uterus has nourished two embryos from conception to...
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....
