“The public image of an abortionist was of an evil, leering, drunken, perverted butcher at worst, and a cold, mysterious, money-hungry Park Avenue price-gouger at best. And then there was Dr. Spencer with his clinic on the main street of a small American town, who believed in abortions, and who was kind”
Originally published January 30, 1969
"On a freezing Friday night I visit Kings County Hospital. Depression hits as soon as I walk through the front doors"
Originally published February 21, 1977
Home health aides are challenging state regulations that only allow them to be paid for thirteen hours of each 24-hour shift — and say Cuomo is dragging his feet on a fix
August 2, 2018
‘I have chosen to fight, to raise a big and hideous and ungovernable howl for the girl I was and the girls who have yet to be’
Originally published July 27, 2018
‘Musk’s gesture to help Flint suits his flair for showmanship; it typifies his attitude toward public action’
July 13, 2018
‘A country without legal abortion is not a country without abortion. It’s just a country in which more women die.’
Originally published July 6, 2018
The Fourth of July protests against ICE and separating immigrant families are part of a long tradition of Statue of Liberty action, including one in 1991 for abortion rights
July 5, 2018
‘I thought throwing myself into work would make me feel better, but work didn’t want to cooperate. So I decided to eat my feelings instead.’
June 15, 2018
‘Panic has its own logic separate from earth-logic; it’s not fear, but another plane, an Upside Down of the mind’
June 14, 2018
‘I don’t know where the urge to kill oneself comes from, if some of us have it and some of us don’t’
June 13, 2018