Working at Women AdvaNCe has been an eye-opening, at times challenging, ultimately rewarding experience. I started the summer eager to jump right in, energized by...[Read More]
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Where I come from, homes aren’t typically built on happiness, financial stability and mutual trust. Families are centered around desperation, jealousy and poverty. People barely...[Read More]
Abortion RightsGeneralHealth, Wellness, and PreventionLGBTQIAMaternal MortalityMyBodyNCReproductive HealthReproductive RightsSelf CareSelf CareTrauma
April 11, 2015 was my daughter’s fifth birthday party. In the pictures from that day, I am wearing a knee-length fluttery skirt and an aqua...[Read More]
In the past few months, we have heard and read much about “fetal heartbeat” laws being passed in several states. The nickname for these bills...[Read More]
Abortion RightsDisabilities & AbleismFamily IssuesGeneralHousing & HomelessnessHunger/Food/NutritionLivable WagesMyBodyNCPoverty IssuesReproductive HealthReproductive RightsWorking Families
I sat in the dark room of a battered women’s shelter in Omaha, Nebraska, surrounded by my three daughters aged 9, 7, and 5 while...[Read More]
Most recent statistics indicate nearly one in four women in the United States will have had an abortion by the age of 45. Abortion is...[Read More]
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The “Never Again” coat-hanger posters often seen at pro-choice demonstrations are at once evocative and cautionary. They conjure up images of gruesome back-alley abortions of...[Read More]
Growing up with an older brother, I spent the majority of my life with the mindset I was never going to let a boy tell...[Read More]
I was 17 and looking forward to escaping high school and going to college. I was independent, an only child raised by busy single parents...[Read More]
Women fought bravely and tirelessly for decades for the right to choose (of course, there were also many who fought to deny women this right,...[Read More]