Let’s Talk About The Movie Where Katharine Hepburn Has An Abortion By Flying...
It has recently come to my attention that there is a film featuring Katharine Hepburn as an aviatrix who commits an abortion/suicide by flying into the sun, and I am simply furious with each and every...
View ArticleThe State of Abortion Access in New Brunswick
Last week, my province made national headlines when it was announced that the Morgentaler clinic, our one and only private abortion provider, will be closing its doors in July due to lack of funding. I...
View ArticleEverything Like White Elephants
The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the...
View ArticleSaturday Mornings With Abortion Protestors: On Being a Clinic Escort
This post originally appeared on March 4th, 2014. My first day at the clinic, a man commits suicide by jumping off a building across the street. It’s a bright but deceptively cold March morning, the...
View ArticleIn Praise of Difficult Women: The Forgotten Work of Nancy Hale
Nancy Hale came into my life as a bit of an accident. I had published a tiny review in a literary magazine, of which I was stupidly and inordinately proud, and received, along with the magazine, a copy...
View ArticleAn Irishwoman Abroad: Learning Obstetrics in Paris
Emily R.'s previous work for The Toast can be found here. At the start of medical school we all had great aspirations. Vague notions of oncology research, of cracking open chests in the emergency...
View ArticleFictional Characters Whose Lives Would Have Been Vastly Improved By An Abortion
Mrs. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice It becomes abundantly clear after the birth of Mary that things are not going to get better; Mr and Mrs Bennet at last have an overdue conversation about the state of...
View ArticleA Cup of Pennyroyal Tea
It’s an unassuming flower, the pennyroyal, with its small, pointed, lavender petals cupped by deep green leaves. Pennyroyal flowers grow in kusudama-like clusters that thread a single, delicate stem. A...
View ArticleAbortion, or What We Want from Chickens
Chickens are contained, caged, squished, bred, anti-biotic’d, fed other chickens. They put the word “processed” right on the package. Chickens are turned-out, rendered, butterflied, quartered, fileted...
View ArticleFirst With Truth: On Choice and the Misuse of Empathy
Afterwards I understood that no matter what I wrote or felt about it, it ends up sounding like propaganda to someone. Read more First With Truth: On Choice and the Misuse of Empathy at The Toast.
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