Right after I wrote a story about photos my grandpa had taken in the 1950s of a woman’s uterus after a botched abortion, I started working on a painting. I am what some might call a “hobby” painter. I was one of those teenagers who spent a majority of high school in the art room, but promptly […]
Author: Anissa Siegel
Anissa Siegel is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Sherman Oaks, California. She is a wife, the mother of three teenagers and cherishes a house full of friends, family and animals.
Of Crochet Hooks and Illegal Abortions
As the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade approaches on Jan. 22—and with the Supreme Court set to revisit women’s fundamental right to access abortion in the Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole case, the most serious threat to abortion since 1992—the Ms. Blog decided to look back at the realities of illegal abortion pre-Roe, and for women today who […]