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Student Think Tank
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Abortion: On The Issues Magazine - by the Editors
Abortion is a matter of the heart. Also law, medicine, politics, history, health, activism, art, liberation, bodily autonomy and self-worth. We probe. •Art by Resa Blatman
Gone Too Far? Reproductive Politics in the Time of Obama - by Carole Joffe
Setbacks just might launch the resurgence of pro-choice activism. •Art by Regina Araujo Corritore
The Grand Folly of Focusing on "Common Ground" - by Gloria Feldt
Guess what? Two clashing worldviews of women do not make a right. •Art by Elaine Soto
An Abortion Miracle? Let's Try the First Amendment - by Priscilla Smith
A Supreme Court litigator suggests a change of tune. •Art by Lisa Link
Ursula O’Farrell
- Curated by Linda Stein
A California-based painter expresses the inner struggles of women to reach empowerment.
Helping Bloggers To Help: Tips for Reproductive Health Organizations - by Amanda Marcotte
If it's a movement, start connecting with the connected. •Art by Heather Keith Freeman
Occupying the Waiting Room: 40 Years of Health Care Needs - by Lori Adelman
Pregnancy termination is ultra common, but who and how has shifted. •Art by Melissa Eder
Can We Choose to Move Forward on Reproductive Justice? -- And How? - by Ayesha Chatterjee and Judy Norsigian
We need to expand our inner circles and spread on out. •Art by Lisa Link
Before “Roe": Legal Battles, Involuntary Servitude, My Mom - by Justine Goodman
Learning feminist history from a source close to home. •Art by Marianne Barcellona
What To Do When They Say Holocaust - by Carol Mason
Pushing back against an opposition that distorts. •Art by Linda Carmella Sibio
Featured Video: The book trailer for On The Issues Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Merle Hoffman's memoir, "Intimate Wars." Click for larger view
We're Not Sorry. Still. - by Jennifer Baumgardner
Controversial or not, the refusal to be apologetic is urgent. •Video
Redefining Chutzpah: More Bad Ideas to Burden Women - by Aram A. Schvey
Surprise: Congress has a "fix" for nonexistent race selection. •Art by Heather Keith Freeman
The Power of Theater: "Words of Choice" Touches Hearts - by Alexis Greene
Actors break through rhetoric to share honest truth. •Art by Words of Choice
Heading Toward Menopause, Still Caring about Abortion - by Andrea Plaid
Stop the stereotyping (oh, and I really do not want a baby). •Art by Heather Keith Freeman
Calling Black LGBTQ Institutions: Where Are You? Where is Reproductive Justice? - by Jasmine Burnett
Show up. Show solidarity. Show you care about oppression. •Art by Jessica Burke
As Access Slides, Feminists Need to "Extract" From Our Self-Help Past - by Carol Downer
How we won the war, and will win it again. •Art by Robin Tewes
Reframing Compassionate Care: Of Madame Restell and Other Outlaws - by Jeannie Ludlow
Illegal wasn't always bad, and complexity isn't either. •Art by Carol Jacobsen
What's the next generation thinking? About the history of lesbians in the military; a response to "Women, War & Peace" in On The Issues Magazine.
Where the Reality of Abortion Resides: Intimate Wars - by Merle Hoffman
In two words -- "if only" -- patients probe deepest values. Excerpt from the book, "Intimate Wars." •Art by Barbara Schaefer
"Business, Money and Power"
On The Issues Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Merle Hoffman talks about "Business, Money and Power."
Anti-Abortion Harassment and Violence Still Stifle Access - by Eleanor J. Bader
Targeting an 11-year-old? Viciousness that knows no bounds. •Art by Lisa Link
Glorifying the Fetus While Ignoring the Fetal Environment - by Margie Kelly
Mercury, lead, BPA: will antis address harm-in-the-womb? •Art by Linda Carmella Sibio
Next Generation Access: Medical Students Fill A Void - by Mary Lou Greenberg
Training new physicians is essential for future abortion care. •Art by Karen Fitzgerald
Letter to a Young Activist: Don’t Drop the Banner - by Barbara Santee
Whatever your career, we want you -- now and forever. •Art by Susan Bee
How Anti-Abortion Protesters Got Me: Letter From a Young Activist - by Sarah Flint Erdreich
We're discouraged -- and we're not backing down. •Art by Susan Bee
Privacy at Stake: Patients, Clinics and Electronic Medical Records - by Corinne A. Carey
Digital record craze needs new rules to protect abortion decisions. •Art by Barbara Schaefer
Lila Rose: A Sweet Face to Accompany Extreme Anti-Abortion Claims - by Kathryn Joyce
She's young, sincere … and she wants to pulverize your freedom. •Art by Chitra Ganesh
"Silent Choices": African American Women Open Up on Film - by Faith Pennick
A friend's dismissive comment begins a quest to respond. •Video
Fine Thoughts On Fertilized Personhood - Poetry by Marge Piercy
- Cartoon by Matt Bors
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The Poet's Eye - From Poetry Co-Editor Sarah Browning
Judith Arcana, Sonya Renee Taylor, Johnna Schmidt, Melissa Tuckey and Katherine Anderson Howell measure moments of give and take.
Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge on Abortion - by Ria Sen and The Feminist Press
Selections for the well-stocked library on abortion.
Satirist's View: Same Old Dilemma, or The Virgin Rebirth - by Susie Day
Mary's sending western civilization a pink slip. •Art by Heather Keith Freeman
"Love Means Second Chances": Reproductive Freedom in a Novel - by Susan Elizabeth Davis
An activist dives in and discovers nuance.
A Counselor's View: Embracing A Holistic Perspective of Abortion
by Linda Weber
January 26, 2012
Imagine the whole universe -- the vast expanse of reality in which all things move from the formless to form and back again in a dance of infinite creation. All relationships manifest in this context. None exists without it. All perceptions reflect this. Not one exists outside of it.
Now, imagine the whole earth in your mind's eye. See the body of our dear planet and how it is made up of a complex web of life forms, each of which is in relationship with other life forms. The intricacy and beauty of earth's living being is astonishing to behold. It is impossible to take it all in. Within the flow of life forms, human beings come into bodily form, develop and live their lives. Each of us is given a piece to know. Each piece becomes the substance of a lifetime -- the individual experience of each individual human being.
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Winter 1990From Our Files:
RELATED STORIES: Bold Discussions of ABORTION in On The Issues Magazine
On the Issues Magazine has been linked with abortion – in theory and practice – since its first issue in 1983 as a newsletter of Choices Women's Medical Center. Since then, the magazine, in print and online, has spoken boldly about the essential right of women to make their own reproductive decisions, covering a wide range of subjects: morality, ethics, history, anti-abortion violence, law, artistic expressions. A large repository of past stories, available for free, are indexed in our archives. Below are excerpts from a few.
In 1990, a story by Mary Lou Greenberg, Another American Tragedy, The Death of Becky Bell, Interview with Bill and Karen Bell described the horrible consequences of a parental notification law: When Becky went to Planned Parenthood in Indianapolis, she learned that she couldn't get an abortion without the consent of at least one parent or a waiver from a judge. But she couldn't bear to tell her mother or father. And word on the street was that it was useless to go before the judge…. Becky Bell, as thousands of women and girls before her, was forced to seek an illegal abortion. Several days after Becky returned from a party feeling "sick," her parents took her to a hospital. The next day she died….Now her parents, Bill and Karen Bell, are …talking to whomever will listen about the killing nature of parental consent and notification laws.
Intimate Wars
of the Woman
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• Merle Hoffman, publisher of On The Issues Magazine
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