by afladmin | Jan 15, 2019 | After Abortion Care
What possessed me to open the seemingly secure, safe, and dark room where I kept my feelings and the identity of our son who I aborted in 1974? In the past whenever I tried to take a light into that room it made me agitated and angry. There was love in that room mixed...
by afladmin | Jan 7, 2019 | Adoption
It was two in the morning when a little round face popped up from the mattress, looked right and left, and then asked, “Umma?” He was ten months old and had already mastered the intonation of a question. It was two in the morning when I patted my little son on the...
by afladmin | Dec 31, 2018 | Abortion
Since 2002, the women of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, which I co-founded, have been speaking publicly about their abortions and the many reasons they regret having made that irrevocable choice. We have been embraced by the pro-life movement because ours are...
by afladmin | Dec 17, 2018 | Abortion
“You don’t protest do you?” It’s a question I’ve been asked with varying degrees of derision and disbelief when I’ve discussed my work with people who were either ambivalent on the abortion issue or are inclined toward being pro-choice. Pro-life people have earned a...
by afladmin | Dec 10, 2018 | Social Justice
“I know my rights!” This is a line usually delivered by a belligerent, unpleasant character on your dime-a-dozen police procedurals. The other characters may roll their eyes collectively during his bellicose rantings. We the members of the audience are meant to...
