by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Jan 12, 2021 | Stories
I was 19, in college, but very naïve about the world. It was the evening of Mother’s Day. Earlier in the day, my grandmother told my Mom, who told my Dad, that I was a smoker and no longer a virgin. It was a traumatizing day. As I was packing to return to campus, my...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Nov 10, 2020 | Book Review, Stories
Reviewed by Sheila Spear MidCoast GRR! Next time you hear someone claim that abortion restrictions will make women safer, reach for this book. One of the politicians who has pursued legislation to restrict access to abortion is Ohio’s Jim Buchy. When asked why...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Nov 9, 2020 | Stories
I wanted to be a Peace Corps volunteer since I was a little girl and finally achieved that goal in March of 1982. I left my small town in Presque Isle, Maine, to begin my service in the Dominican Republic. Later that year, I found out I was pregnant. While I was fond...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Sep 7, 2020 | Book Review
A 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. It is a book I...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Sep 6, 2020 | Stories
My daughter had an abortion. She was 19 and in an abusive relationship. She says now that she was very out of tune with her body at the time and didn’t even realize that she was pregnant until she went to a health center for birth control. Ronnie and his parents...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Aug 4, 2020 | Stories
There are new challenges to reproductive rights and to abortion access being seen across the country. I have been demonstrating, making phone calls and writing letters, as we all have. While doing this, I think about how women will access abortions if this...
