Stigma by the numbers

It is inevitable that shortly after I post new stories on the site, I’ll get a couple of e-mails that single out the stories told by those who have had multiple abortions. The overall tone of these e-mails is “you know, it’s not really helping the pro-choice cause when you put these stories up, because [...]

What’s going on …

The month-long hold on posting new stories seems to have worked–there’s roughly twenty stories in the formatting hopper for the end of the week. Some of the contributors even wrote their own HTML, a sight to gladden any webmaster’s heart.

I was recently contacted by a producer for HBO about contributing to a documentary concerning [...]

Opinions needed!

I got an e-mail today from a young woman who was compelled by her “pro-life” parents and her own beliefs to continue a pregnancy caused by date rape. She now deeply regrets the decision. I’ve gotten a few e-mails like this in the past few months, and I was toying with the idea of creating [...]

Have a take and don’t suck

Much to probably several people’s disappointment, I’ve locked comments on the SNM thread. I promised I wouldn’t delete, and it’ll force you guys to maybe look at the other posts, heh heh.

The one thing that’s annoying about debating the whole abortion issue is the endless recycling. I created the FAQs for INS roughly [...]

Of trolls and teens

Among The Many Things I Do To Piss The Anti-Choicers Off, what seems to get them the most up in arms is when I deliver the smackdown to an over-righteous (and usually fundie) teenager who comes on the guestbook and proceeds to pontificate that anyone who gets an abortion is a dirty baby-killing slut and [...]

The glamorous life–not

Although I’ve hardly become a media icon in my time running INS, it seems that every time an interview appears there’s a little group of anti-choicers who analyze my every word, gesture and facial expression. It’s pretty obvious to me that their fondest wish is to see me crack, to burst into noisy public tears [...]