Abortion is essential reproductive healthcare for one fourth of American women/people with uteruses, now more than ever. Exploiting a global pandemic to ban abortion is pure evil.

Separating abortion care from other types of basic reproductive healthcare, including motherhood, is a lie cooked up by anti-abortion extremists. Fifty-nine percent of the people who access abortion care are already mothers/parents. And it is time sensitive care. The longer a pregnant person has to wait to access an abortion, the riskier and more expensive that care becomes.

In Michigan, Bridge Magazine elected to publish a recent op-ed by anti-abortion extremist organization Right…

Start by Believing is a revolutionary trauma-informed method of investigating sexual assault, whereby the process of information gathering from the first moment of reporting is based on one simple idea: that the survivor is telling the truth.

Netflix and the New York Times have introduced Diagnosis, a documentary that asks, “Can we find answers to some of medicine’s most complicated problems?”

In the final episode, Ann (44) says, “Every woman in this country knows what it’s like to be poo-pooed by a doctor.” I would add, especially if you’re a mom concerned about a medical issue involving your child.

So…

The Declaration of Independence guarantees the American ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Liberty is a noun meaning freedom. Its synonyms are autonomy, birthright, choice, independence, opportunity.

Yet birth control and safe and legal access to abortion care — the very things that grant people who can become pregnant access to the American ideals of freedom and prosperity — are under attack in this country.

Again.

The question is whether Women and all who can become pregnant are entitled to that liberty; to freedom, to prosperous futures for themselves and their families, should they choose to have…

The right to safe and legal access to abortion care — to decide when and whether to add children to the daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, life equation of Me vs. Already Precious Resources — is at the foundation of every other issue that impacts life in the good ol’ U.S. of A.

I walked the beloved beaches of my southwest Michigan hometown today, something I haven’t done in years. I prefer quiet stretches anchored in civilization. It reminds me of weekdays in late summer when the boats have quieted and Illinois schools are back in session, when once again the…

As legislation banning abortions or specific abortive procedures has swept the country, we’ve heard some words from a former candidate for governor in Michigan, a key state in the upcoming 2020 elections.

Through his organization Southpaw, whose mission isn’t quite clear, other than to keep the ears of progressives and to keep them stirred up and angry, former candidate for governor of Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed sent this letter, and then asked for a donation to his organization:

When I was in medical school, I had the opportunity to spend a morning with a young woman as she was deciding whether…

Dear Governor Whitmer,

We cannot hope to achieve gender equity without first healing racism. The state’s proposed plan to close Benton Harbor High School accomplishes neither of those things.

This is how I know….

It is perhaps 1970. I am playing peekaboo with a little girl with black pompon pigtails and very dark skin under the divide between our two mothers in the dressing room at JCPenney in downtown Benton Harbor. We giggle at each other. I…

May 31, 2019 marked ten years from the date “Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed while serving as an usher in his church. He was the 8th abortion provider to be murdered by anti-abortion terrorists.

“Dr. Tiller was in the cross-hairs of targeted anti-abortion harassment and violence. In 1986, his clinic was bombed. He survived an earlier assassination attempt in 1993 — he was shot in the arm by an anti-abortion terrorist. He returned to work two days later.

“Bill O’Reilly was on a campaign to target and defame Dr. Tiller. In the four years leading up to his…

There’s a lot of talk about unity in the Democratic Party these days, but it unfortunately often feels like that word “unity” is code for silencing marginalized communities.

If we didn’t know it before, we now know from the abortion bans sweeping republican governed states that over half the population — women — are included when we talk about marginalized communities. That’s white women, women of color, women of all kinds and colors living in poverty, women who are no longer women but who can still get pregnant, women who only have consensual sex with other women, people with both…