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When writers use the names of specific herbal abortifacients in fiction, they conjure an imaginary in which abortion could be accessible and possible across genres, worlds, and time.  Likewise, when…

A few months after moving to New England for graduate school, I went home to Utah for the holidays. I was homesick: I wanted to be farther from the center…

“To speak for yourself then means risking the rebuff — on some occasions, perhaps, once and for all — of those for whom you have claimed to be speaking; and…

Looking at my nightstand, I noticed Tylenol and a chocolate bar and chuckled to myself. The juxtaposition of the objects seemed so obvious they bordered on cliché. If you know,…

Women have said again and again “This body is my body!” and they have reason to feel angry, reason to feel that it has been like shouting into the wind….

Heather Latimer, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Karen Weingarten, Associate Professor, Queens College, City University of New York We’ve been discussing abortion politics for more than ten years….

2004: Vasectomy #2 In a creative writing workshop in college, I wrote an essay about being groomed by one of my high school teachers. (Maybe you did, too. It is…

“Abortions will not let you forget.”  The opening line of Gwendolyn Brooks’s famous poem “the mother” compels its reader to recognize and remember the fact of abortions now, in the…