by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Jun 30, 2020 | Stories
When I moved to Maine with my husband, I was newly-retired. I had spent my life as a psychiatric nurse, helping others with their problems. Now I had a problem of my own…how to stay active and useful in my “twilight years.” When I learned from a dear friend that a few...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Jun 2, 2020 | Stories
Raising Girls – Needing SuppliesWhen I went to Disney World, I was confident that I’d be able to find family bathrooms. They were pretty standard now – in airports, parks, and other public facilities. Most, but not all. Disney’s park did not disappoint, at...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | May 4, 2020 | Stories
It’s 1979….New Orleans, Louisiana…and I am working at an abortion clinic right in the heart of the city. Six days a week we are providing abortion care services.… I travel by streetcar five of those days. There is never a slow time in this clinic…we provide abortions...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Mar 10, 2020 | News, Stories
I’m 80 years old, a mother of four, and a grandmother of five, and because of the birth control pill, I was able to have both a fulfilled career and a happy family life. When I was in my early 20’s, I had a tumor on one of my ovaries and had to have the ovary removed....
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Feb 4, 2020 | Stories
Preface: On Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Pam Richardson of Kansas GRR! shared her story during the public hearing before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee Opposing HCR 5019 (HCR 5019 reads “to amend the bill of rights of...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Jan 7, 2020 | Stories
On December 24, 2008, I was assaulted (attempted rape) on the main street of Wooster, Ohio, by a young man who was two months shy of his 18th birthday. He had just been released from the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS) 10 days prior after a 4-year stay, and...
