Reading Time: 2 minutes I was almost impregnated by a child molester. I can’t go into too much detail, but I will say this: it was a heterosexual-passing long-term relationship between two white people. It was socially condoned in almost every way. I could’ve become pregnant and had that baby, and everyone would’ve cheered. Luckily, that’s not what happened. […]
we have no choice
Journalism and storytelling from the secular perspective about the loss of reproductive rights in the United States and the fight to regain them.
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When abortion is a joke
Reading Time: 5 minutes My college folklore professor Alan Dundes, a scholar often credited with creating the modern field of folkloristics, was an energetic teacher and learner with both a love and an encyclopedic knowledge of the field. When he gave a lecture on “sick” jokes to a hall filled with hundreds of students, I was fascinated. Even though […]
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Who gets abortions? It’s not who you think
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s not a promiscuous non-Christian teen in her third trimester who just isn’t ready for kids yet.