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Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has generated a critical urgency for this landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays. Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people reclaiming the sole authorship of their abortion experiences. These essays, poems, and prose are a testament to the profound political power of defying shame.
Contributors include Ai, Amy Tan, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Camonghne Felix, Carol Muske-Dukes, Diane di Prima, Dorothy Parker, Gloria Naylor, Gloria Steinem, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Arcana, Kathy Acker, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lindy West, Lucille Clifton, Mahogany L. Browne, Margaret Atwood, Molly Peacock, Ntozake Shange, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Sharon Doubiago, Sharon Olds, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Sholeh Wolpe, Ursula Le Guin, and Vi Khi Nao.
Contributors include Ai, Amy Tan, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Camonghne Felix, Carol Muske-Dukes, Diane di Prima, Dorothy Parker, Gloria Naylor, Gloria Steinem, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Arcana, Kathy Acker, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lindy West, Lucille Clifton, Mahogany L. Browne, Margaret Atwood, Molly Peacock, Ntozake Shange, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Sharon Doubiago, Sharon Olds, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Sholeh Wolpe, Ursula Le Guin, and Vi Khi Nao.
420 pages, Paperback
First published April 7, 2020
About the author
Annie Finch
45 books99 followersAnnie Finch is the author of six books of poetry, including Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, Calendars and Eve (both finalists for the National Poetry Series), and the verse play Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (Sarasvati Award, 2012). Her poems have appeared onstage at Carnegie Hall and in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Her other works include poetry translation, poetics, poetry anthologies, and a poetry textbook. She is also the editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Annie Finch holds a Ph.D from Stanford, served for a decade as Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and has lectured on poetry at Berkeley, Toronto, Harvard, and Oxford. In 2010 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her lifetime contribution to the art and craft of Versification. Finch has collaborated on poetic ritual theater productions with artists in theater, dance, and music and has performed as Poetry Witch on three continents. She teaches poetry and magic at PoetryWitchCommunity.org.
“My poems harness the magically diverse and deeply rooted craft of poetic rhythms and forms. Like spells, they enjoy being spoken aloud three times." —Annie Finch
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“My poems harness the magically diverse and deeply rooted craft of poetic rhythms and forms. Like spells, they enjoy being spoken aloud three times." —Annie Finch
Annie on Twitter @poetrywitch
Annie on Instagram @thepoetrywitch
Annie connects with readers and facilitates seasonal rituals and classes in poetry and meter in her online community,
PoetryWitchCommunity.org, open to all who identify as women or gender-nonconforming.
Want more info? Updates, videos, poems, spells, spellsletter signup, and more at anniefinch.net
Blessings to all my beautiful readers!
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May 17, 2020I can't "review" this prose and verse anthology, since it includes one of my poems (alongside work by eye-popping echelons including Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank O'Hara, Dorothy Parker, Anne Sexton, Amy Tan, and more!).
Still, I wanted to put down a few words about this anthology -- for example, to say I appreciated how diverse it is, its authors hailing from a relatively broad range of cultures and geographic locales. There are pieces dealing with the complex issue of sex-selective abortions in India; in one essay, a journalist contrasts attitudes toward abortion in the former Soviet bloc with attitudes in the West. I was riveted by Soniah Kamal's prose piece, "The Scarlet A," based on her interviews of three female high school students in Pakistan who had had abortions and who tell of how the strong social stigma against premarital sex in their community complicated their experiences. Also powerful was the excerpt from Mo Yan's prose work Frog, in which a Communist Party chairwoman tries to force a mother of three daughters to have an abortion for the sake of "national family planning": the woman's husband intervenes, but it is soon clear that it is not because he respects his wife's bodily autonomy but because he dreads seeing his male line come to an end. Mo's violently ironic tale is a tart reminder of how often women get sidelined in their own narratives.
Some other pieces that stood out to me:
The powerful, subtly perfect sonnets "(Amber)" by Debra Bruce ("She'd never known that word before -- injunction -- / until the lady outside the clinic.... And then the girl, / just like the lady said, will find a way. / She hasn't seen the lady since that day") and "Tunnel of Light" by Julie Kane ("O holy mother, help us to forgive / Those who killed us and those who let us live").
The haunting, obliquely emotional dreamscapes of "Abortion Hallucination" by Larissa Shmailo and "My Sister Grows Big and Small" by Linda Ashok ("Ma,... / I see a girl by the pond every day; / she wears my school dress / and tells me that she misses you. / She has your mole and her lips, Ma, / are as red as yours").
The blazingly furious poem "Right to Life" by Marge Piercy ("A woman is... / Not a purse holding the coins of your / descendants till you spend them on wars" and "You value children so dearly.... / Every noon the best / restaurants serve poor children steaks").
The essay "A Birth Plan for Dying" by Hanna Neuschwander.
Still, I wanted to put down a few words about this anthology -- for example, to say I appreciated how diverse it is, its authors hailing from a relatively broad range of cultures and geographic locales. There are pieces dealing with the complex issue of sex-selective abortions in India; in one essay, a journalist contrasts attitudes toward abortion in the former Soviet bloc with attitudes in the West. I was riveted by Soniah Kamal's prose piece, "The Scarlet A," based on her interviews of three female high school students in Pakistan who had had abortions and who tell of how the strong social stigma against premarital sex in their community complicated their experiences. Also powerful was the excerpt from Mo Yan's prose work Frog, in which a Communist Party chairwoman tries to force a mother of three daughters to have an abortion for the sake of "national family planning": the woman's husband intervenes, but it is soon clear that it is not because he respects his wife's bodily autonomy but because he dreads seeing his male line come to an end. Mo's violently ironic tale is a tart reminder of how often women get sidelined in their own narratives.
Some other pieces that stood out to me:
The powerful, subtly perfect sonnets "(Amber)" by Debra Bruce ("She'd never known that word before -- injunction -- / until the lady outside the clinic.... And then the girl, / just like the lady said, will find a way. / She hasn't seen the lady since that day") and "Tunnel of Light" by Julie Kane ("O holy mother, help us to forgive / Those who killed us and those who let us live").
The haunting, obliquely emotional dreamscapes of "Abortion Hallucination" by Larissa Shmailo and "My Sister Grows Big and Small" by Linda Ashok ("Ma,... / I see a girl by the pond every day; / she wears my school dress / and tells me that she misses you. / She has your mole and her lips, Ma, / are as red as yours").
The blazingly furious poem "Right to Life" by Marge Piercy ("A woman is... / Not a purse holding the coins of your / descendants till you spend them on wars" and "You value children so dearly.... / Every noon the best / restaurants serve poor children steaks").
The essay "A Birth Plan for Dying" by Hanna Neuschwander.
November 2, 2022
Very timely collection of essays, poems, plays and more which gives voice to the myriad of perspectives surrounding reproductive choice and abortion - the various reasons for it, regrets ot sighs of relief, a choice thought through or coerced by people and circumstances, something forgotten by the passage of time or a feeling that haunts you forever - every kind of emotion is captured in these pages, across countries and cultures and decades and I was completely moved by these stories and experiences. It only reinforces my conviction to always advocate for reproductive freedom, especially when we find it more in danger every single day.
November 24, 2020
I really enjoyed this book and recommend anyone interested in learning more about abortion read it.
June 30, 2022
I decided to write a proper review of this in light of last Friday’s SCOTUS decision.
(“in trouble” is such an apt euphemism, isn’t it?)
“Choice Words” is an anthology of writings related to abortion. They range from short stories, poems, essays, excerpts from novels, tweets even. The collection isn’t focused on any specific geographical location and has a very diverse roster of contributing writers, which I really enjoyed. We get perspectives from India, Northern Ireland, China, etc. Also, though the overwhelming majority of authors featured are women or girls (which, to be clear, is how a book on abortion should be designed), one of my favorite pieces was actually written by a man, Langston Hughes!
I was impressed by this book for two reasons: 1. The pieces, judged individually and 2. The fact that it exists as a unit so lovingly put together. These are brilliant, carefully crafted words, in a brilliant carefully crafted collection, and I am truly grateful to Annie Finch for curating this. She did a public service.
Judging an anthology by its ability to take from many and put together, this more than exceeded my expectations. It presents different perspectives, experiences, outcomes, and covers topics such as assault, infidelity, medical emergencies, femicide/sex-selective abortions, enslavement, motherhood, life, death. Some pieces feature women who didn’t even want an abortion, or do think it’s wrong on some level. Further, because it’s an anthology, it can easily be put down and picked back up, which is a good thing to remind oneself when the book gets heavy (and it will).
Speaking of, I wasn’t expecting the amounts of tenderness towards children, born and unborn, that these writings contained! The featured authors write of their choice to get an abortion not with spite or disgust, but with love, and with the desire to be a good mom, which sometimes means not becoming a mom. As someone who really respects parenthood and the family as the foundation of society, it touched me to read this. It also reminded of this 1992 documentary, Motherless, about mothers pre-Roe v. Wade who died of complications from illegal abortions. And here we are thirty years later…
But most of all this book reminds me of, to borrow a phrase from Tavi Gevinson, the "low-simmering rage" women walk around with – we try to live our lives amongst the mess of what could happen, what has happened, what we must do, what we can do. This collection says a lot of the quiet parts out loud, hushed kitchen conversations now printed on page.
Of the 140, pieces that particularly stuck out:
• “The Abortion I Didn’t Want,” Caitlin McDonnell
• "Cora, Unashamed," Langston Hughes
• “The Pill Versus the Springfield Mine Disaster,” Joanna C. Valente
• "Post-abortion Questionnaire - Powered by Surveymonkey," Susan Rich
• “And there is this edge,” Lauren R. Korn
• “The Scarlet A,” Soniah Kamal
• “yolk (v.),” Emily Carr
• “The Mother,” Gwendolyn Brooks
• “The Lady with the Lamp,” Dorothy Parker
• "I Am Used to Keeping Secrets About My Body", Josette Akresh-Gonzales
• “Of The Missing Fifty Million,” Shikha Malaviya
• “Tweets from exile in Northern Ireland,” Jenifer Hanratty
• Excerpt from “Standing Ground,” Ursula K. Le Guin
• “Farewell, My Love,” Ginette Paris
• “Right to Life,” Marge Piercy
• “Being A Woman,” Jennifer Goldwasser
• Excerpt from “Frog,” Mo Yan
• "A Birth Plan for Dying,” Hanna Neuschwander
• “Nicolette,” Colette Inez
I am not, in a Goodreads review, going to proffer any solutions or calls for action, but I will say that I really enjoyed this book. I am able to read, and I’m happy I read this.
" Do not stand at my grave and cry! I am not there, I did not die! "
5/5.
(“in trouble” is such an apt euphemism, isn’t it?)
“Choice Words” is an anthology of writings related to abortion. They range from short stories, poems, essays, excerpts from novels, tweets even. The collection isn’t focused on any specific geographical location and has a very diverse roster of contributing writers, which I really enjoyed. We get perspectives from India, Northern Ireland, China, etc. Also, though the overwhelming majority of authors featured are women or girls (which, to be clear, is how a book on abortion should be designed), one of my favorite pieces was actually written by a man, Langston Hughes!
I was impressed by this book for two reasons: 1. The pieces, judged individually and 2. The fact that it exists as a unit so lovingly put together. These are brilliant, carefully crafted words, in a brilliant carefully crafted collection, and I am truly grateful to Annie Finch for curating this. She did a public service.
Judging an anthology by its ability to take from many and put together, this more than exceeded my expectations. It presents different perspectives, experiences, outcomes, and covers topics such as assault, infidelity, medical emergencies, femicide/sex-selective abortions, enslavement, motherhood, life, death. Some pieces feature women who didn’t even want an abortion, or do think it’s wrong on some level. Further, because it’s an anthology, it can easily be put down and picked back up, which is a good thing to remind oneself when the book gets heavy (and it will).
Speaking of, I wasn’t expecting the amounts of tenderness towards children, born and unborn, that these writings contained! The featured authors write of their choice to get an abortion not with spite or disgust, but with love, and with the desire to be a good mom, which sometimes means not becoming a mom. As someone who really respects parenthood and the family as the foundation of society, it touched me to read this. It also reminded of this 1992 documentary, Motherless, about mothers pre-Roe v. Wade who died of complications from illegal abortions. And here we are thirty years later…
But most of all this book reminds me of, to borrow a phrase from Tavi Gevinson, the "low-simmering rage" women walk around with – we try to live our lives amongst the mess of what could happen, what has happened, what we must do, what we can do. This collection says a lot of the quiet parts out loud, hushed kitchen conversations now printed on page.
Of the 140, pieces that particularly stuck out:
• “The Abortion I Didn’t Want,” Caitlin McDonnell
• "Cora, Unashamed," Langston Hughes
• “The Pill Versus the Springfield Mine Disaster,” Joanna C. Valente
• "Post-abortion Questionnaire - Powered by Surveymonkey," Susan Rich
• “And there is this edge,” Lauren R. Korn
• “The Scarlet A,” Soniah Kamal
• “yolk (v.),” Emily Carr
• “The Mother,” Gwendolyn Brooks
• “The Lady with the Lamp,” Dorothy Parker
• "I Am Used to Keeping Secrets About My Body", Josette Akresh-Gonzales
• “Of The Missing Fifty Million,” Shikha Malaviya
• “Tweets from exile in Northern Ireland,” Jenifer Hanratty
• Excerpt from “Standing Ground,” Ursula K. Le Guin
• “Farewell, My Love,” Ginette Paris
• “Right to Life,” Marge Piercy
• “Being A Woman,” Jennifer Goldwasser
• Excerpt from “Frog,” Mo Yan
• "A Birth Plan for Dying,” Hanna Neuschwander
• “Nicolette,” Colette Inez
I am not, in a Goodreads review, going to proffer any solutions or calls for action, but I will say that I really enjoyed this book. I am able to read, and I’m happy I read this.
" Do not stand at my grave and cry! I am not there, I did not die! "
5/5.
February 25, 2021
A collection of stories,essays and poems that reinforce the need to keep abortion safe and legal. Too many woman have died and suffered just to have reproductive freedom!
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August 11, 2022Anthologies exist beyond rating. This is no exception. The volume and breadth of selections would be respectable on any topic. Yet for the topic to be one so culturally taboo and underrepresented throughout literature as abortion makes this anthology all the more terrifying, impressive, and necessary.
It doesn't take long to grasp Finch's aim in amassing these pieces. It's not to change a reader's political opinion. Nor is it to shed light on victims or minorities (though it does well in spots).
Instead, it seems Finch hopes that the universality of the female experience shines through across culture, language, and class. Abortion, pregnancy, birth, these are but a few of the possible outcomes, struggles, and decisions that women face.
What's clearer than ever is how influential familial support is or could be in the life of an expectant mother. Whether fiction or not, each of these pieces contextualizes and crystallizes the truth that pregnancy never affects only one person. It's not a matter of mother or child, but a matter of mother and child and father and family and friends and so on.
It would have been easy to settle for selections replete with one-dimensional narrators, ethnicities, relationships, and opinions. Finch doesn't settle. Not once. And it's for the betterment of not only this anthology but its readers as well.
It doesn't take long to grasp Finch's aim in amassing these pieces. It's not to change a reader's political opinion. Nor is it to shed light on victims or minorities (though it does well in spots).
Instead, it seems Finch hopes that the universality of the female experience shines through across culture, language, and class. Abortion, pregnancy, birth, these are but a few of the possible outcomes, struggles, and decisions that women face.
What's clearer than ever is how influential familial support is or could be in the life of an expectant mother. Whether fiction or not, each of these pieces contextualizes and crystallizes the truth that pregnancy never affects only one person. It's not a matter of mother or child, but a matter of mother and child and father and family and friends and so on.
It would have been easy to settle for selections replete with one-dimensional narrators, ethnicities, relationships, and opinions. Finch doesn't settle. Not once. And it's for the betterment of not only this anthology but its readers as well.
October 27, 2020
Very timely read. Extensive collection of short stories and poetry on abortion from writers (mostly women) from all over the world. Read it! We will need to protest a lot very soon here.
January 30, 2023
This was a difficult book to read, both in subject matter and format. I am a staunch supporter of a woman's right to choose, and that only women should make the decisions regarding their body. This book included some content around the regrets of a handful of women, but overall the majority of the stories (and poems) were of women who knew with absolute certainty that this was the right choice, or their only choice. It would have been better if each section had an introduction, instead of the lengthy introduction in the beginning (about each of the sections) that I kept referring back to.
It was incredibly long, and some of the poems didn't "feel" on-topic. Many of the stories were immensely sad and made me so angry at the suffering of so many women around the world, and how hard the patriarchy has made it for women to have safe abortions. I felt powerless after reading it, not energized to take action, as I have after reading other stories about the diminishing rights of women.
It was incredibly long, and some of the poems didn't "feel" on-topic. Many of the stories were immensely sad and made me so angry at the suffering of so many women around the world, and how hard the patriarchy has made it for women to have safe abortions. I felt powerless after reading it, not energized to take action, as I have after reading other stories about the diminishing rights of women.
May 23, 2024
This book is a gift of voice, a challenge to the silence and shame our society insists on around the fraught matter of abortion. It should be required reading for anyone opposed to reproductive choice and those who would legislate away our rights to control over our own reproductive health. For those of us not opposed, whether we’ve experienced the act of making the choice or not, the poems and stories are a refuge and affirmation of mind, body, heart, will and spirit.
May 25, 2022
"For the first time I realized that my mother’s presence could not keep me safe from harm. For the first time it struck me that while Osman was probably sitting in his room watching a movie, I was about to undergo something potentially fatal."
April 2, 2021
A 5- more for the selection of writings rather than the writing itself. A must read and a must talk-about.
May 22, 2023
Never been so enthralled by an anthology before <3 delicate and powerful
May 23, 2020
An important book well worth owning. I hope that future editions of this book come into being, with more rich voices.
May 25, 2021
This was a hard read. Most people would probably consider this book a "pro" abortion book but genuinely it is just a book on the reality of abortion. And that reality is that it is hard, emotional, and often necessary because of the man involved. My SO also read the book and was deeply touched by how strong these women are and the tough choices they face when dealing with the world and men.
On a reading note, the book is divided into sections of prose and poetry, etc. The longest parts are excepts from books that are usually about 3-7 pages long. This made the book so easy to read as I could stop and think about each item I read before moving on the to the next. You can also easily put it down and pick it back up if needed.
On a reading note, the book is divided into sections of prose and poetry, etc. The longest parts are excepts from books that are usually about 3-7 pages long. This made the book so easy to read as I could stop and think about each item I read before moving on the to the next. You can also easily put it down and pick it back up if needed.
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March 24, 2024*Another that doesn’t sit within rating scope - important just in existing. Read this over the course of a year and treated it a bit like a coffee table book that I could pick up and put down as I felt up to it. I did get through every single story and poem though and a few that stood out to me:
-The Scarlet A by Sonia Kamal which follows three girls’ abortion stories who were in the same high school class jn Pakistan
-Tweets in Exile from Northern Ireland by Jennifer Hanratty, a collection of live tweets documenting her and her husband’s experience traveling to the UK for medical treatment after their unborn child is diagnosed with a disease with no chance of survival.
-Excerpt from Standing Ground by Ursula K. Le Guin which follows a mother with a mental disability, whose daughter arranges and travels with her to an abortion clinic after her mother is sexually assaulted and becomes pregnant.
-A Birth Plan for Dying by Hanna Neuschwander, speaking on her decision to have a late-term abortion:
“This is hard to say: Ending Rivers’s life was the most moral decision I have ever made. Moral in the literal sense: “concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.” I grappled with my deepest being - my spiritual, my intellectual, my biological selves. I made my decision and then remade it a thousand times. I am terrified I have failed her, have failed my family, have failed my culture. But morality is no longer an abstract question for me. “Right or wrong” cannot contain the scope of my moral reckoning, my moral longing. What is an acceptable level of suffering? Whose suffering matters more? Who gets to decide? No one, not even the ableist philosophers, has been able to answer these questions to our society’s satisfaction. But for some reason we like to shame and vilify the very people who have grappled most viscerally with them.”
-The Scarlet A by Sonia Kamal which follows three girls’ abortion stories who were in the same high school class jn Pakistan
-Tweets in Exile from Northern Ireland by Jennifer Hanratty, a collection of live tweets documenting her and her husband’s experience traveling to the UK for medical treatment after their unborn child is diagnosed with a disease with no chance of survival.
-Excerpt from Standing Ground by Ursula K. Le Guin which follows a mother with a mental disability, whose daughter arranges and travels with her to an abortion clinic after her mother is sexually assaulted and becomes pregnant.
-A Birth Plan for Dying by Hanna Neuschwander, speaking on her decision to have a late-term abortion:
“This is hard to say: Ending Rivers’s life was the most moral decision I have ever made. Moral in the literal sense: “concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.” I grappled with my deepest being - my spiritual, my intellectual, my biological selves. I made my decision and then remade it a thousand times. I am terrified I have failed her, have failed my family, have failed my culture. But morality is no longer an abstract question for me. “Right or wrong” cannot contain the scope of my moral reckoning, my moral longing. What is an acceptable level of suffering? Whose suffering matters more? Who gets to decide? No one, not even the ableist philosophers, has been able to answer these questions to our society’s satisfaction. But for some reason we like to shame and vilify the very people who have grappled most viscerally with them.”
July 17, 2022
4.5⭐️ I’ve read the articles, listened to the pundits, braved the twitter quick takes. But until I read this book, I had never heard so many absorbing, enlightening, candid accounts from women who’ve had abortions. The collection of essays, poems, and relevant excerpts from novels includes a wide range of reasons, circumstances, and self-reflection. The accounts come from different countries and multiple time periods. The abortions chronicled were legal and illegal, conducted in calm professional spaces and hidden rooms, and were done after the patients had to go through a gauntlet of protestors. The women featured faced their decision with fear, confidence, alone and with partners. They were desperate teens, resigned women nearing menopause, moms-to-be whose excitement turned to heartbreak when told the child they wanted had catastrophic genetic abnormalities. I learned so much reading their accounts. This book makes the reversal of Roe even more regrettable.
August 14, 2020
Wow, this was exhausting to read. It feels more like a 3.5 than a 4. I guess with the nature of anthologies, there were some pieces that were incredible and others that read very "eh" or were kind of cringey. The book was also completely cis-het woman centered. There were zero pieces that mentioned or centered trans folks, and queerness was mentioned a single time and not even as someones identity but rather as a woman pretending to be gay? I don't know, it was confusing. Of the pieces that I thought we're great, they had me feeling things all across the spectrum, I was laughing, reflecting on my relationships, felt heavy pits in my stomach, and felt profound grief all come up.
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October 28, 2021From Follett: "Collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people reclaiming the sole authorship of their abortion experiences. The essays, poems, and prose are a testament to the profound political power of defying shame"--Provided by publisher.
December 11, 2023
This book reflects the complexity and individual experiences of each woman's own pregnancy and the choices she must make.
My body; my choice. Her body; her choice. Full. Stop.
They are private, complex, intimate and life-altering choices. And no one has any right to insert themselves into the equation, unless they are invited by that woman to do so.
#fuckSCOTUS
#fuckDobbs
#fuckabortionbans
#trustwomen
My body; my choice. Her body; her choice. Full. Stop.
They are private, complex, intimate and life-altering choices. And no one has any right to insert themselves into the equation, unless they are invited by that woman to do so.
#fuckSCOTUS
#fuckDobbs
#fuckabortionbans
#trustwomen
July 10, 2021
a must-read. some very moving stories, i loved the mix of authors and styles of writing. if some of the stories aren't for you there are hundreds to read, so every reader will find one for them.
the topic of abortion is one that is still taboo, so this discussion is one that needs to be had. the book is very well structured as well!
the topic of abortion is one that is still taboo, so this discussion is one that needs to be had. the book is very well structured as well!
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March 9, 2022not gonna rate it because this is a collection of stories that ranged a lot but wow. this book has made me realize just how little i know about abortion
June 5, 2022
A most powerful writing on the necessity of choice. A must read for all. Beyond incredible. This piece of work will stick with me.
June 7, 2022
A must read for its raw and honest stories of abortion.
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July 20, 2022I'm back..
August 3, 2022
Wide spectrum of voices with wide experiences. These are the voices and votes which will keep this choice, and need, legally available. ( Go, Kansas!)
August 30, 2022
Individual pieces in this anthology shine, but it's overall a poorly curated collection.
September 11, 2022
Beautiful collection that hit a variety of emotions.
May 25, 2023
4.5 stars. A powerful and impressively curated collection.
June 13, 2023
A phenomenal anthology that captured a full range of human experiences with abortion without stigmatization. A rare and beautiful thing.
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