by Grandmothers | Jun 5, 2019 | Stories
A year before her death I had asked my maternal grandmother if she would come back to Cincinnati to attend my ordination to the priesthood. She told me that she wouldn’t be able to be present. When I asked her why, she told me that she had been excommunicated...
by Grandmothers | Apr 30, 2019 | Stories
I felt the sun blazing through the one window of the classroom. Sweat ran down my arms and legs, onto the dirt floor. This was even hotter than our August classrooms in the United States. In Tanzania, the heat lasts all year. For me, it would take some getting used...
by Grandmothers | Apr 1, 2019 | Stories
GRR! Kansas organizer, Pam Richardson, shares her grandmother’s story. My grandmother was born in 1893. She had a baby the first year of her marriage and then, immediately got pregnant again. She told me that they could not provide for another child at the...
by Grandmothers | Mar 4, 2019 | Stories
My husband and I were married in September of 1997. I was 35 years old and we wanted to start a family right away. By early December of 1997, (which seemed like forever) I took three pregnancy tests before I told my husband that I was pregnant. Pure joy! My first...
by Grandmothers | Feb 5, 2019 | Stories
“History shows that no nation has reached its full potential, politically, socially or economically, when its women cannot control their fertility. Once they can, that nation’s most valuable resource, brainpower, is doubled if not more.” I began my residency training...
by Grandmothers | Jan 16, 2019 | Stories
“Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights is one of the most important organizations in the state because people actually listen to them.”-Ruth, Former Executive Director, Mabel Wadsworth Center,...
