Blog

“Here’s another failure.” Looking back at me on Facebook is the beautiful, smiling face of a young woman. She’s a “failure,” too. Like me, as she referenced in her statement. She was replying to this photo of my friends and fellow survivors, Melody and Claire. I say...

As many of you may have noticed, I’ve been working at revamping The Abortion Survivors Network, and I’m also working away at a healing curriculum/self-study that will be released soon. I know it’s been a long time coming, but there’s been a lot of irons in the fire...

As posted originally at Her View from Home on January 7, 2019. Turkey and mashed potatoes sit blandly on the dark brown tray of the hospital bed in front of me. I pick at them blithely, despite being ravenous, as I stare blankly at the white walls that feel like...

This was the day I came home to my parents in October of 1977.  My hair was starting to grow back after my head had been shaved for IV lines. I weighed around five pounds here at just under two months of age.  I was able to go home to my parents because I survived...

The more the U.S. culture experiences the phenomenon of increasingly aggressive abortion legislation being introduced, the more politicians like Governor Northam of Virginia discuss the circumstances of leaving the medical care of abortion survivors as “a...

“On behalf of the 269 survivors that I’ve connected with through my work, I just want to thank you for all you do for life.” These are the words that I spoke to President Trump as I shook his hand in the Oval Office on February 14th, 2019, as seen in this photo....

As published originally at NRLC News Today: This past weekend, Claire Culwell, one of two twins who survived an abortion , and Josiah Presley, a curettage abortion survivor, joined me on Fox & Friends for not one, but two segments. We shared our stories of...

Published on Her View From Home. January 15, 2019. Originally published on The Mighty. Link at bottom of article. https://herviewfromhome.com/dear-husband-im-grateful-for-the-refining-power-of-our-for-worse/ When I said “for better or for worse” nearly 10 years ago, I...

There’s something so vulnerable about letting our kids, even more vulnerable, walk through those school doors each day, knowing that we can’t help them with what they encounter. We can’t protect them from the teasing, the frustrating tasks, the difficult learning...