Submitted by: Ashly Lorenzana I’m a thirty-four year old sex worker from Portland. I’ve been in the industry for around seventeen years, during which time I’ve had a total of seven abortions. The most recent of which was in late December of 2021. I am childless by...
Submitted by: Alicia Vervain This anger is cold.Empty. Hollow.It is not the raging fire of a forest sparkingagainst the black sky. It is that sky.It is the ash and smoke and charred meat of bodiesthat have more valuethan the lives they inhabit,whose wombs carry more...
Exhale Pro-Voice is currently an entirely volunteer-run and donor-supported organization. A Board Member provides essential functions to keep our organization going, including communications, fundraising, training, and anti-oppression work. WHO are we looking for?...
Submitted by: Clarissa It's been almost a year since the abortion I didn't want to have and I'm still grieving. Between the stress an unplanned pregnancy caused in my relationship & the constant reminder of it because women's healthcare is all over the news as...
Submitted by: Jen That's what I have to write on all the medical forms - of which there have been many, since my abortion 2 years ago. Two years full of regret, sadness, and a collapse of my previously stable mental health. My first pregnancy was to a man I didn't...
Submitted by: Sarah N. The “trauma” of my abortion has nothing to do with the abortion, and everything to do with the guilt and shame forced on me by conservative parents who also forced shame and guilt on being pregnant and unwed. Of course they didn’t say it...
Submitted by: K L I have had two abortions on separate occasions. My first time, I was 23 in 2017. It was with a man that I had just started dating and our condom broke one night. We thought nothing of it. I became really sick and took a pregnancy test at urgent care...
Submitted by: Kerri I had an abortion awhile back and I literally think of it every day. I have multiple friends who are pregnant and all due around the same time as my baby would of been. I'm trying so hard to be excited and I really am for them, but I am terribly...
Submitted by: LJ How do you deal with an ongoing family issue around your overall family being anti-choice. I talked about my abortion publicly in detail and alluded with no specifics that someone else in my extended family had to make a hard choice to end a...