Choice words: writers on abortion

Mind

Body

Heart

Will

Spirit.

Foreword / Katha Pollitt --

Introduction / Annie Finch --

Mind. You are here / Cin Salach --

First response / Desiree Cooper --

From The Women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor --

Motherhood / Georgia Douglas Johnson --

(Amber) / Debra Bruce --

From The Kitchen God's Wife / Amy Tan --

The End / Sharon Olds --

A Million Women Are Your Mother / Saniyya Saleh --

"Oh Yeah, Because You Could Choose Not To," from Now for the North / Emily DeDakis --

From The Millstone / Margaret Drabble --

The Abortion I Didn't Want / Caitlin McDonnell --

Free and Safe Abortion / Ana Gabriela Rivera --

Merely by Wilderness / Molly Peacock --

From Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman / Mary Wollstonecraft --

Cora, Unashamed / Langston Hughes --

You Have No Name, No Grave, No Identity / Manisha Sharma --

Five Months Vulnerable / Burleigh Mutén --

From Past Due / Anne Finger --

Abortion / Ai --

From Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman / Lindy West --

The Pill Versus the Springfield Mine Disaster / Joanna C. Valente --

You Don't Know / Judith Arcana --

Ghazal / Jenna Le --

From What Have You Done for Me Lately? / Myrna Lamb --

Post-Abortion Questionnaire-Powered by SurveyMonkey / Susan Rich --

Body. From "Tam Lin" / Anonymous Balladeers --

The Business of Machines / Shirley Geok-lin Lim --

From Heat and Dust / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala --

Psalm / Alina Stefanescu --

On the Death and Hacking into a Hundred Pieces of Nineteen-Year-Old Barbara Lofrumento by an Illegal Abortionist, 1962 / Pat Falk --

From Self-Ritual for Invoking Release of Spirit Life in the Womb / Deborah Maia --

And There Is This Edge / Lauren R. Korn --

Tugging / SeSe Geddes --

From Happening / Annie Ernaux --

Saraswati Praises Your Name Even When You Have No Choice / Purvi Shah --

"Recruiting New Counselors" from Jane: Abortion and the Underground / Paula Kamen --

From "Box Set" / Sue D. Burton --

Birth / Wendy Chin-Tanner --

The Scarlet A / Soniah Kamal --

Sorry I'm Late / Kristen R. Ghodsee --

Pelican / Mahogany L. Browne --

Names of Exotic Gods and Children / Valley Haggard --

Date of Last Period / Amy Alvarez --

Remembering How My Native American Grandfather Told Me a Pregnant Woman Had Swallowed Watermelon Seeds / Jennifer Reeser --

From "Make Your Own Way Home" / Leila Aboulela --

An Avocado Is Going to Have an Abortion / Vi Khi Nao --

yolk (v.) / Emily Carr --

This Doctor Speaks: Abortion Is Health Care / Sylvia Ramos Cruz --

In Which I am a Volcano, from Terminations: One / Lynne DeSilva-Johnson --

Cold Cuts and Conceptions / Julia Conrad --

My Excuse: I Had an Abortion. What's Yours? / Laura Wetherington --

The Jewel of Tehran / Sholeh Wolpé --

Heart. the mother / Gwendolyn Brooks --

Places / Mariana Enriquez --

Women's Liberation / Judith Arcana --

Cardboard Pope / Galina Yudovich --

From Granica (Boundary) / Zofia Nałkowska --

Interred / Pratibha Kelapure --

She Did Not Tell Her Mother (A Found Poem) / Kenyan Teenagers and Annie Finch --

The Lady with the Lamp / Dorothy Parker --

From Rubyfruit Jungle / Rita Mae Brown --

From La Bâtarde / Violette Leduc --

I Am Used to Keeping Secrets about My Body / Josette Akresh-Gonzales --

Weather / Lisa Coffman --

Of the Missing Fifty Million / Shikha Malaviya --

My Sister Grows Big and Small / Linda Ashok --

Tweets in Exile from Northern Ireland / Jennifer Hanratty --

The Virginity Thief (A Letter to My Man) / Thylias Moss --

Abortion Hallucination / Larissa Shmailo --

Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, After an Abortion / Diane di Prima --

What Was, Still Is / Alida Rol --

From "Abortion" / Anne Finger --

Song of the Emmenagogues / Lesley Wheeler --

From The Hundred Secret Senses / Amy Tan --

Nothing but the Wind / Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi --

Haint / Teri Cross Davis --

The Memory of Abortion Unexpectedly Returns / Leslie Monsour --

Gretel: Unmothering / Lauren K. Alleyne --

Moo and Thrall / Dana Levin --

From La Nove de los locos (The Ship of Fools) / Christina Peri Rossi --

Abortion / Bobbie Louise Hawkins --

From Come in Spinner / Dymphna Cusack and Florence James --

From "Standing Ground" / Ursula K. Le Guin --

Dear Elegy the Size of a Blueberry / Katy Day --

"Farewell, My Love," from The Sacrament of Abortion / Ginette Paris --

Afterlife / Joan Larkin --

Will. Through the Blood / Busisiwe Mahlangu --

Right to Life / Marge Piercy --

From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name / Audre Lorde --

The Spring of Life / Ann Townsend --

From for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange --

From "Introduction to 'The Idea' and 'The Idea'" / Hilde Weisert --

Not Yours / Angelique Imani Rodriguez --

Being a Woman / Jennifer Goldwasser --

An Abortion Day Spell for Two Voices / Annie Finch --

I Think She Was a She / Leyla Josephine --

Regarding Choice / Alexis Quinlan --

We Women / Edith Södergran --

"Don Quixote's Abortion," from Don Quixote / Kathy Acker --

American Abortion Sonnet #7 / Ellen Stone --

After the Abortion, an Older White Planned Parenthood Volunteer Asks If My Husband Is Here & Squeezes My Thigh and Says, "You Made The Right Decision," and Then "Look What Could Happen If Trump Were President, I Mean, You Might Not Even Be Here." / Camonghne Felix --

New World Order / Lisa Alvarado --

From Daughter of Earth / Agnes Smedley --

The Abortion / Anne Sexton --

Confession #1 / Yesenia Montilla --

From Frog / Mo Yan --

Getting into Trouble / Jacqueline Saphra --

The Children's Crusade / Ana Blandiana --

A Promise / Gloria Steinem --

Spirit. Poem for Myself and Mei: Concerning Abortion / Leslie Marmon Silko --

A Good Woman Would Never / Sylvia Beato --

Abortion Isn't Beautiful / Nicole Walker --

Magdalen / Amy Levy --

The Year the Law Changed / Carol Muske-Dukes --

I Bloomed / Angie Masters --

From "Corona and Confession" / Ellen McGrath Smith --

The Promise / Tara Betts --

From "A Healing Abortion Ceremony" / Jane Hardwicke Collings and Melody Bee --

A Birth Plan for Dying / Hanna Neuschwander --

On That Day / Arisa White --

New Religion / Mary Morris --

Hail Mary / Deborah Hauser --

At Advent, the Waiting Room / Daisy Fried --

From A Book of American Martyrs / Joyce Carol Oates --

Tunnel of Light / Julie Kane --

Lizard / Ulrica Hume --

Beneath the World: Two Poems to The Child Never to Be Born / Sharon Doubiago --

Prayer to the Spirit / Starhawk --

the lost baby poem / Lucille Clifton --

Abortion Child / Jean Valentine --

"Fire Section" from Abortion: A Healing Ritual / Minerva Earthschild and Vibra Willow --

An Abortion / Frank O'Hara --

From "Principles of Midwifery," from My Notorious Life / Kate Manning --

Christmas Carols / Margaret Atwood --

Nicolette / Colette Inez --

From "Lily's Abortion in the Room of Statues" in Among the Goddesses / Annie Finch --

Chapel of Forgiveness / Cathleen Calbert --

From Surfacing / Margaret Atwood --

Mourning Sickness / T. Thorn Coyle --

Lullaby / Claressinka Anderson.