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...
by Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights | Aug 4, 2020 | Book Review
Expanding our vision and our alliances, a review of Reproductive Justice: An Introduction Reviewed by Sheila SpearAugust 2020 Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger: Reproductive Justice: An Introduction, University of California Press, Oakland, California 2017ISBN:...
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...
