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Closing the North Shore Birth Center is reproductive injustice
These remarks were offered as public testimony to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. On Wednesday, July 20, 2022, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health held a public hearing on the proposed closure of the North Shore Birth Center at Beverly Hospital by Beth Israel Lahey Health. More than forty members of the public—including several […]
Enough.
Originally published on Medium. It was a Wednesday. I was a high school junior, not yet 17. Throughout the day, I found myself glancing behind me, mentally noting how I could get out of any of my classrooms should the threat arise. At 16, I taught myself situational awareness because just 24 hours before, Dylan […]
Video: Line of Love Counter Protest
Motherhood at Year 5: What It’s Really Like Raising a Kindergartner
Originally posted on Red Tricycle (now Tinybeans). For a long time—too long, it felt like—I wasn’t sure I’d ever get to be a mom. I went through five years of infertility, five years of wondering if someone would ever grow up and call me “Mom.” It’s been 10 years since that day I got the […]
2016’s Motherhood Report Card: How Did We Do?
Originally published at Romper. It’s that time of year again — when retrospectives of the year past are as ubiquitous as peppermint mochas. As 2016 draws to a close, you’ll have plenty of lists and roundups on everything from the best and worst of entertainment, to the biggest headlines, to the ever depressing “Here’s All […]
What Happened When My 3-Year-Old Asked Me About the Orlando Shooting
Originally published on Babble.com. After picking up my son up from daycare, I buckled him into his car seat. “Can we listen to the news?” my 3-year-old asked. “Sure, honey,” I replied. Our local public radio station — like so many media outlets right now — recapped the horrible massacre that happened in Orlando on […]
Do Kids In The US Need More Recess? Yes, They Desperately Do
Originally published on Romper. A video released Tuesday by attn: — a social impact company whose mission is to “inform and empower the next generation” — has American parents talking and wondering if kids in the U.S. need more recess. The minute-long “Recess Around the World” video has been gaining traction online since it was […]
Personhood Amendments Would Hurt Families Who Want Children
Originally published at Rewire News Group. The amendments in Colorado and North Dakota giving legal rights to fetuses would leave people seeking in vitro fertilization in the dust. Next week, voters in Colorado and North Dakota will take to the polls to vote on amendments that would give legal rights to zygotes, embryos, and fetuses, also […]
I Can’t Do Baby Showers… and 6 Other Things Your Friend with Infertility Wants to Tell You
Originally published at Disney Baby (archived). It’s National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW). This is my fifth NIAW, the first since I gave birth to my son last year. I have these moments when I look at my son Judah in absolute wonder and amazement. I can’t believe he’s really here, I think: I can’t believe […]