My mother looked down at her hands and said…"I’m pregnant."
I would say my life has been defined in a large part by the lack of agency my mother had in her choice to have children. She was married...
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Sixty-two self-identifying mothers responded to 18 text prompts. Read them here.
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Sep 23, 2022
The Sonogram Tech Gave Me No Signs
Three. For some reason three was the magic number in my head. Number one was so hard to conceive, to carry, to birth, to nurture. Number...
Jul 13, 2022
The sound of that heartbeat cemented my faith
My husband was out of town for the day of my scheduled checkup. Home with our first born (via emergency cesarean), I was well into my...
Jul 11, 2022
I had never felt so much love as when she was placed in my arms.
I spent eight months worrying about what it would be like when I finally went into labor. I had heard so many stories about painful birth...
Jul 11, 2022
I was not ready to make this commitment, and neither was he.
When I was in college, after a spell of indiscriminate sex partners who were not at all interesting or good to me, I met an artist who...
Jul 11, 2022
It was a time when abortion was legal and accessible
As a college student in the early 1980's, I married young and briefly, and had two abortions. I trusted a man who turned out not to be ...
Jul 10, 2022
Abortions are health care.
She was trying to become pregnant after so much planning. She’s so smart, such a planner. She was so thrilled to finally get a positive...
Jul 10, 2022
I know my healing continues as I share my story
My husband and I already had two beautiful, healthy children that were well into self-sufficient ages. Two children were all we could...
Jul 10, 2022
I can’t believe this choice is being taken away from us
I spent the first night of my son’s life with only him in the hospital, as my husband was tired and needed to go home to sleep. I didn’t...
Jul 10, 2022
My mother is a grandmother now.
"My mother is a grandmother now she says to me let’s catch up so I put my book down take a deep breath say sure and she is already...
Jul 10, 2022
Nine months later, the same woman who counseled me for my abortion delivered my perfect baby boy
I knew I was pregnant. That’s not why I made an appointment at the family planning clinic. It wasn’t my first time in this situation,...
Jul 10, 2022
Five pregnancies, one abortion, two miscarriages, two live births
Five pregnancies, one abortion, two miscarriages, and two live births. All such different experiences and I was a different person for...
Jul 9, 2022
Growing up in a southern baptist household
Growing up in a southern baptist household, sexuality was shameful- the only option was abstinence until marriage. Even though my family...
Jul 9, 2022
"For fucks sake, no one likes having an abortion"
My heart still pounds and races when I think of the 22 year old me, nearly 2 decades ago who stared at the stick with the two lines...my...
Jul 6, 2022
I owned that choice
I was 23 when I had an abortion. I was a senior in college and getting ready to study and travel abroad for my final semester. I was...
Jul 2, 2022
Too Poor
I had been engaged for about 6 months. I had been feeling ill for several weeks, and when I missed a second period (because who on...
Jun 29, 2022
I squatted, reached inside and...
We were interrupted unexpectedly and he bolted out the back door so no one would know. The phone rings. On the other end was him. He said...
Jun 29, 2022
I was terrified, alone and ashamed.
It was 1969. A few months earlier a man I was on a date with had forcibly raped me. Now I was in Australia at a college friends sheep...
Jun 26, 2022
Because it was the right thing for me
This photo is from a time when my then-husband was out fishing and I was, simply put, not okay. My body was broken in many ways after a...
Jun 26, 2022
My body felt different immediately
Storytelling is my love-language and you'd think that I'd be able to be loud and proud over this, but as you know, or can imagine, it's...
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