More Writings
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Ezra Klein Explains Things to Women–But We’re Still Confused
COUNTERPUNCH • 09.2025
An open letter to Ezra Klein in response to his Sept. 18 interview with his New York Times colleague Ross Douthat in which he said Democrats must support anti-choice candidates for public office. -
Essentially Ripped Off: Review of Jennifer Hendricks’ Essentially a Mother
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Roe Was Always a Terrible Basis for Abortion Rights. Now We Can Fight for Something Better.
JACOBIN • 08.2022
Abortion activists had to defend Roe when reproductive rights hung in the balance of its defense. But it was always a weak foundation for those rights. We shouldn’t want Roe back — we should demand much, much more.
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“Safe Haven” Laws Are Key to the Right’s Push to End Women’s Right to Abortion
JACOBIN • 05.2022
Nationwide, “safe haven” laws allow mothers to abandon newborn children and relinquish responsibility for parenting them. The laws sound like something no one could oppose — but they’ve been a key strategy in the Right’s war on women’s right to abortion.
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The road to women’s suffrage began in Washington state
CROSSCUT • 03.2020
100 years after the 19th Amendment granted women the vote, meet the Pacific Northwest activists who ignited the effort.
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The Girl Who Wouldn’t Go Away
SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD • 01.2020
This essay unearths a largely forgotten part of recent American history. Just a few decades ago, thousands of American women were forced to give up their babies to strangers because they were unmarried. The practice erupted in the 1940s and then just as suddenly subsided.
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Take away the incentives for too many c-sections
CROSSCUT • 08.2009
The state performs 11,000 unneeded caesarean births each year, in part because of insurance incentives. A measure passed by the last Legislature could help change the pattern.
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Sawa’s Deliverance
SEATTLE METROPOLITAN • 01.2009
Japanese midwives delivered thousands of Seattle’s babies. The authorities respected their work but locked them up anyway.
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Washington stumbles toward landmark paid family leave
CROSSCUT • 04.2008
One of only a handful of states to enact such a program, it remains to be seen if the state can actually fund it. A 2009 ballot measure might be necessary to impose a payroll tax to cover the cost.
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Going to Where the Silence Is: Interview With Amy Goodman
YES! MAGAZINE • 02.2005
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Study: Nude
IOWA JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES • 2001
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Review of The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller
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Review of The Improvised Woman by Marcelle Clements
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On Fathers
IOWA REVIEW • 1998
Review of Fathering Daughters, edited by DeWitt Henry and James Allan McPherson