On November 28, 2009, the New York Times Sunday edition featured an editorial “In Support of Abortion, It’s Personal vs. Political” in the Week in Review. While there were some things I liked about this editorial, there was much to dislike. First and foremost being the fact that Post-Roe women are defined only [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Exhale’
In Support of Wellbeing, Abortion Matters to Women and Families (a fictional editorial by Cheryl Straight Stobilt)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Oakland, Leadership, Abortion, Pro-Voice, Success, Exhale, Vision, Justice, Peace, Culture War, Stigma, Aspen Baker on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I Was Wrong
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Exhale, Humor, TV on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Abortion is not the go-to gag for a laugh,” I wrote last year in what I thought was an edge-pushing issue of Our Truths-Nuestras Verdades, Exhale’s bilingual abortion zine. After past issues on such heady topics as stigma, family, pregnancy and feelings about the fetus, Exhale decided it was time to branch out. We [...]
Me on KPFA’s Full Circle (Berkeley radio)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Aspen Baker, Counseling, Culture War, Exhale, NonJudgment, Pro-Voice on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Listen here. Start listening around 25 minutes.
Open Letter to Irene Vilar, “Abortion Addict”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Abortion Addict, Aspen Baker, Books, Challenge, Counseling, Culture War, Exhale, Irene Vilar, NonJudgment, Pro-Voice on October 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dear Irene,
I was alerted to the pending release of your book, Impossible Motherhood, by a friend and when I read the summary, I thought: “Wow. That’s intense.”
I read in another article that you feared your “self-described ‘abortion addiction’ will be misunderstood” and that you only scheduled “closed-door interviews and will [...]
Exhale Honors Volunteer Jan with 2nd Annual Rachel Falls Compassion Award
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Counseling, Exhale, Fun, Fundraising, Leadership, Non-Profit, Pro-Voice, Volunteering on October 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In 2008, Exhale and our community lost a very dear friend and ally. Rachel Falls, the Hotline Director at the National Abortion Federation (NAF), passed away after a long battle with brain cancer. Rachel was many wonderful things to many people. At Exhale, she will always be remembered as one of the first people [...]
Buy & Read “The Invisible Mountain” by Carolina De Robertis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carolina De Robertis, Challenge, Exhale, Fun, Success, The Invisible Mountain, Vision on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my Exhale co-founders, Carolina De Robertis, started working on her first novel about the same time we founded the organization. Nine years later, that novel, The Invisible Mountain, is now available. It’s getting great reviews from Elle, Publisher’s Weekly and more. It’s a story about 3 generations of Uruguayan women and I was [...]
Glamour Magazine Declares: “Its Time to Make Peace on Abortion”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Culture War, Exhale, Justice, Leadership, NonJudgment, Organizing, Peace, Pro-Voice, Success on August 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I couldn’t agree more.
Glamour Magazine is well on its way to becoming my favorite magazine of all time. It was just a few short months ago that they featured the stories of women post-abortion. Now, they seek advice from experts on conflict resolution in order to create a more “thoughtful [...]
