Requiem for Rachel

As numerous posts on Facebook, Twitter and other places have informed me, today is National Coming Out Day to raise awareness of gay rights issues. I like to think that the majority of INS readers are pretty aware of gay rights or lack thereof so I’m not going to hop onto the metaphorical soapbox and [...]

New year, same old crap

In the past couple of months Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia has been sending out e-mails about a proposed pro-choice license plate to counteract the CHOOSE LIFE plates that came out last year. As I’ve stated previously Virginia may be the personalized license plate capital of the world. It’s fairly easy to get a new [...]

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 [...]

It was one year ago today …

A year ago today, I and approximately 1.15 million others converged on Washington, DC for the March for Women’s Lives. When I first saw the picture taken from the Washington Monument of the marchers on the National Mall, the mass of purple and gold created by all of those holding NARAL Pro-Choice America signs, it [...]

What if it happened to you?

A question I recently put in the FAQs, which has been asked by several snide antis, is “well, if you’re so proud of getting abortions, why do you only use first names?” Instead of firing off a snarky “get your own site if you don’t like it,” I gave it some thought. Around this time, [...]