In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are thrilled to unveil the official guide created in collaboration with The People’s Supper — Pro-Voice Abortion Conversations at the Table: A Story Sharing & Listening Guidebook. One of the ways we can end abortion stigma is by talking about it, so let’s start a cultural transformation at our dinner […]
Exhale Enters a New Chapter
In social justice movements all across the world, people are using story-sharing, listening, and deep and thoughtful conversations to build connected communities. There is a strong desire to create places (virtual and in person) to be real, to learn and to be transformed. This moment is an opportunity for Exhale to go big with engaging communities on […]
Exhale + TED
1. Watch Aspen Baker take the TED stage for her talk, A Better Way to Talk About Abortion: 2. Listen to Aspen Baker in TED Radio Hour in the series, Beyond Tolerance: 3. Read Aspen’s TED Ideas blog post, How Stories of Personal Experience Help Drive Change: 4. Read these […]
Top 5 Questions About Pro-Voice
1) What is pro-voice? We hear a lot about abortion politics. But how often do we get to hear from people who have experienced abortion in their own words? Though 1 in 3 women in America will have one in her lifetime, abortion is still taboo in conversation, polarized in politics, and all too distanced […]
8 Things Not to Say to Someone After Abortion
This is the list I wish I had ten years ago. After I had an abortion, nobody knew what to say to me. Not even Larry, my therapist. Poor Larry. Looking back, I would not have known what to say to me, either. One in three women will have an abortion in her lifetime. Men, […]
This summer, I did something that I’ve been putting off for eight years: I sat down and talked to my parents – Bob and Cecilia – about how they handled my abortion. We’ve talked about my abortion before, a sentence here or there, but usually it’s in the context of a larger conversation about something […]