Someone please explain to me why pregnant women are left standing on buses and trains, whilst able-bodied men sit back and pretend not to see them? As a member of the “club” myself, I have yet to be offered a seat by a man…. I’ll be dangling from the bars with my belly pressed right […]

This should be a time of peace, yet my gaiety was completely curtailed when I pulled up behind a car that had a bumper sticker that read, “If Mary was Pro-Choice, There Would Be No Christmas.” Is this really necessary?… In the spirit of the holiday season, would it be so bad to drop the […]

Antiabortion activists have relied on questionable science in their efforts to push inclusion of the concept of “post-abortion syndrome” in both clinical practice and law…. Our inability to replicate the findings of the Coleman study makes it clear that research claiming to find relationships between abortion and poor mental health indicators should be subjected to […]

While there are so many possibilities, I have to stop myself from this vicious loop-de-loop of over-thinking. I can not wonder “what if?” This is the path that I chose, while trusting in God, an endocrinologist, a high-risk OB and a rabbi, who encouraged me to follow my heart. ~Shira Hirschman Weiss, discussing her IVF […]

Story behind treasured Christmas hymns, Week 2 of 4… “Go Tell It on the Mountain” John Wesley Work, Jr., an African-American professor at Fisk University in Nashville, first published the lyrics and music to this slave spiritual in 1907. Writes Ace Collins in his book, Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas: The song had […]

As it is, all we did was kiss. Nowadays many children are at it younger than 14. And I worry they’re being pressured into it. There’s a lovely stage of innocence that is essential to one’s development and to be constantly battered with the fact that you’ve got to have it off with somebody or […]

I felt like such an incredible failure, and I felt so alone when it happened. ~Journalist and former co-host of The View, Lisa Ling, discussing her recent miscarriage, as quoted by The Stir, December 10. Ling has created a website, Secret Society of Women, “where women can anonymously share their thoughts — about miscarriage and […]

Rev. Carlton Veazey – the president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice – talked to a young woman about the decision she had made as something very private, which involved her own circumstances and beliefs and her hopes for the future. Others in the cozy waiting room listened intently – on one side, the […]