Media & Blog Archive

Our archive includes selected posts from mainstream and social media, including the Exhale Is Pro-Voice blog on the topics that matter most to our community of women and men with personal abortion experiences: pro-voice & culture change; storytelling, privacy & technology; abortion peace & conflict transformation; post-abortion emotional health; as well as Exhale's after-abortion talkline and nonprofit management.

Pro-Voice & Culture Change:

• GritTv, “Spark a Movement That’s Pro-Voice,” Laura Flanders, July 25, 2011
• New York Daily News, “Get Your Politics Off My Grief,” Kassi Underwood, May 2, 2011
• New York Times, Post-Abortion Counseling Group Finds Itself on the Firing Line, Shoshanna Walter, January 14, 2011
• Huffington Post, “Stupak Win or Lose: We Need Culture Change,” Aspen Baker, November 20, 2009
• RH Reality Cast, “Pro-Choice or Pro-Voice (or both)?,” Amanda Marcotte, May 4, 2009
• RH RealityCheck, “RH RealityCast”, Amanda Marcotte, March 18, 2008
• PBS/NOW, “Post-Abortion Politics”, Interview with Aspen Baker, July 20, 2007
• Conscience: The newsjournal of Catholic opinion, “Pro-Voice,” Aspen Baker, November 15, 2006
• Tribune-Star, “Filling a need for ‘pro-voice’ abortion counseling,” Stephanie Salter, February 9, 2006
• San Francisco Bay Guardian, “The new choice: Some Bay Area feminists are asking if there isn’t a more honest and effective way to fight for abortion rights”, Tali Woodward, November 5, 2003

Storytelling, Privacy & Technology:

• PhilanTopic, “Pro-Voice is Pro-Chaos,” Thaler Pekar, July 25, 2011.
• Stanford Social Innovation Review, “Working with Stories,” Thaler Pekar, June 27, 2011
• Exhale is Pro-Voice Blog, “Free to Thrive: Coming out and the Transformative Power of Empathy,” Jovida Ross, June 23, 2011
• Media Action Grassroots Network Blog, “Technology Matters to Women Who Have Had Abortions,” Aspen Baker, April 19, 2011
• The Nation, “'I Had An Abortion,' in 140 Characters or Less: An Exchange With Steph Herold and Aspen Baker” with Steph Herold and Aspen Baker, November 12, 2010  
• Exhale Is Pro-Voice Blog, “The Storytellers: The Experience of Creating and Sharing Abortion Stories,”  Kristen Schultz Oliver Interviews the Storytellers, April 27, 2010
• Exhale Is Pro-Voice Blog, “The Recruiter: Inviting Abortion Storytellers with Integrity,” Kristen Schultz Oliver, April 27, 2010
• Exhale Is Pro-Voice Blog, “The Expert Teacher: When Stigma is Part of the Story; Aspen Baker Interviews Amy Hill” April 27, 2010
• Beth’s Blog, “Social Media ≠ Public Exposure: Lessons in Private Networking for Social Change,” Aspen Baker, April 1, 2010
• AspenBaker’s Blog, “My Interview with Baratund Thurson: Telling a Personal Story in Public,” Aspen Baker, March 23, 2010
• Exhale Is Pro-Voice Blog, “Reducing Abortion Stigma through Social Networking: Our Pro-Voice Approach” By Kristen Schultz Oliver, March 19, 2011
• Bust, “My Body, My Voice: Abortion 'zine Our Truths/Nuestras Verdades keeps it real.”Jessica Firger, November 20, 2006
• Your Call with Laura Flanders, (Radio), “ Telling Abortion Stories: On the anniversary of Roe v Wade” January 22, 2004

MTV “No Easy Decision”/Exhale”16 & Loved” Campaign

Please see the bottom of the page for all links.

Abortion Peace & Conflict Transformation

• Care2Causes, “In the Abortion Debate, the Common Ground We Need is Each Other,” Aspen Baker, May 3, 2010
• Exhale Is Pro-Voice Blog, “Can Listening to Women Who Have Had Abortions Bring Peace to the Abortion Wars?,” Eyal Rabinovitch, May 2, 2010
• Exhale Is Pro-Voice Blog, “On Neutrality, AKA Our True Stand” Aspen Baker, March 27, 2010
• Huffington Post, “How to Resolve the Abortion Conflict,” Aspen Baker, July 8, 2009
• RH Reality Check, “Just Say Yes to Abortion Peace” Aspen Baker, April 20, 2010
• RH Reality Check, “Peace for the Abortion War, Part 2,” Aspen Baker, March 6, 2009
• RH Reality Check, “Peace for the Abortion War,” Aspen Baker, January 13, 2009

Post-Abortion Emotional Health:

• Care2Causes, “Beyond Mental Illness: Emotional Health and Abortion,” Aspen Baker, February 10, 2011
• RH Reality Cast, “Nebraska Challenges Roe and Real Post-Abortion Counseling” Podcast with Amanda Marcotte, April 25, 2010
• Huffington Post, “Overcoming Stigma: Dead NFL Players, Suicidal Veterans and Emotional Women,” Aspen Baker, April 20, 2011
• Huffington Post, “Common Ground on Abortion,” Aspen Baker, June 30, 2009
• Glamour, “Abortion: The Serious Health Decision Women Aren’t Talking About Until Now”, Liz Welch, February 2, 2009
• National Public Radio, “Talk of the Nation”, Neal Conan, January 22, 2008
• New York Times Magazine, “Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?” Emily Bazelon, January 21, 2007
• Women's eNews, “Abortion Stigma Enters Era of Unburdening”, Eleanor Bader, December 7, 2006
• The New Republic, “Multiple Choice,” Garance Franke-Ruta, November 17, 2005
• Alternet.org, “Readers Write: Waiting to Exhale”, Laura Barcella, June 7, 2005
• Alternet.org, “Women Waiting to Exhale,” Jennifer Baumgardner, June 1, 2005
• San Francisco Chronicle, “Shame Shouldn’t Be the Rx: Taking the politics out of abortion counseling”, Stephanie Salter, November 3, 2002

After-Abortion Talkline

• Oakland Magazine, “Waiting to Exhale, post-abortion hotline counsels without judgment”, Thaai Walker, January 1, 2008
• Ladies Home Journal, “The No-Judgment Zone”, Thaai Walker, July 1, 2007
• Women's eNews, “Pro-Voice Hotline Goes Nationwide” Rebecca Vesely, June 9, 2005
• Contra Costa Times, “Unbiased Listeners,” Editorial, June 2, 2005
• Associated Press, “In abortion debate, unique talk line fills niche,” Lisa Leff, May 31, 2005
• Oakland Tribune, “Oakland hot line goes nationwide,” Rebecca Vesely, May 29, 2005
• Women’s eNews, “New Bay Area Hotline Offers Post-Abortion Counseling,” Rebecca Vesely, May 5, 2002

Nonprofit Management

• VolunteerMatch Blog, “Volunteers Lead the Way at Exhale,” Jovida Ross, April 14, 2011
• CompassPoint Nonprofit Day Plenary Panel on Next Generation Organizations: “Julie Davdison-Gomez at Nonprofit Day” video, August 31, 2010
• Chronicle of Philanthropy, “For Some Nonprofit CEO's, Recession Stress Is Personal”, Holly Hall, November 16, 2009

MTV “No Easy Decision”/Exhale”16 & Loved” Campaign (December 2010)

• Lynn Harris, Salon.com: “MTV’s Shockingly Good Abortion Special.”
• Shelby Knox, ShelbyKnox.com:“MTV’s Abortion Show Was…Actually Good.”
• Jessica Valenti, JessicaValenti.com:“MTV’s abortion special treats issue with compassion, facts.”
• Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Cast (podcast): “Aggressive Women, Rape Myths, And Abortion Realities”
• Roxann MtJoy, Change.org: “MTV to Air Special on Teen Abortion Tonight”
• Linda Lowen, About.com: “MTV’s No Easy Decision Follows Teens Who Choose Abortion”.
• Sean Daly, NYPost:“MTV Follows ‘Teen Mom’ Who Chose Abortion in Controversial New Show” and “16 & Pregnant Abort Show Furor”
• Luchina Fisher, ABCNews.com: “MTV Airing Teen Abortion Special, ‘No Easy Decision’”
• Bianca Laureno, Latino Sexuality: “No Easy Decision/16 & Loved: MTVs Airing of Teen Stories About Abortion” and “Reflecting On “No Easy Decision”
• Vanessa Valenti, Feministing: “MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” to air special on abortion tomorrow”
• Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Feministing: “On MTV’s special, “No Easy Decision.”
• Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check:“Morning Roundup: Alaska, Wisconsin, and 16 and Loved”
• Kelsey Wallace, Bitch:“Love for the Women of MTV’s “No Easy Decision”
• Barbara Glickstein, WBAI Healthstyles (MP3)
• Jill Fillipovic, Feministe:“16 & Loved”
• Irin Carmon, Jezebel: “MTV Airing Teen Abortion Special”
• LATimes Show Tracker: “How groundbreaking was MTV’s abortion special?”
• Sarah Seltzer, The Washington Post:“MTV’s ’16 and Pregnant’ exploits teen moms but addresses abortion with dignity”
• BostonHerald.com:“MTV Abortion Special: No Easy Decision”
• Steph Herold, AbortionGang:“16 and Loved: Supporting Women Who Have Had Abortions”
• Jamia Wilson, Womens Media Center: “MTV Abortion Special “No Easy Decision” Addresses Abortion with Compassionate Integrity”
• Jennifer Pozner, Reality Bites Back: “Viewers Guide to MTV Abortion Special: Send young women your love but give Dr. Drew the sideeye” and “Liveblogging ’16 & Pregnant’ Reunion Show and MTV abortion special No Easy Decision”