The Guttmacher Institute has just released a report that shows that worldwide increases in contraception use between 1995-2003 led to a reduction in the number of unintended pregnancies and therefore abortions. Now, that seems pretty obvious to me, but there’s some backstory to this. At the same time that contraception has become more widely available, […]

I’ve written about Exhale before, but I want to mention them again. Exhale is a hotline for women who are considering or have had an abortion and their partners. Almost all of the resources and support around abortion come from anti-abortion groups and they tend to use incredibly judgmental and shaming language, provide inaccurate information, […]

Regardless of what you personally believe about abortion, one very common experience for women and their partners when it comes to abortion is that there can be a lot of different emotional reactions. For the most part, the anti-choice folks tend to use any negative feelings as proof that abortion is bad while ignoring the […]