Author: Honor Moore

Honor Moore’s previous six books include a biography, two memoirs and three collections of poems. The Bishop’s Daughter was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was an LA Times Favorite Book of the Year. Our Revolution was featured on The New York Times Paperback Row. She has edited six anthologies, including Poems from the Women’s Movement and, with Alix Kates Shulman, also for the Library of America, Women’s Liberation: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can! Among her awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation in nonfiction and the National Endowment of the Arts in poetry. She lives in New York City and teaches in the MFA program at the New School.

1969, a Pre-Roe Experience: An Excerpt From New Memoir, ‘A Termination’

In her new memoir, A Termination, writer and actor Honor Moore recounts her decision to have an abortion in 1969: “I didn’t think about I’m having an abortion, I just did it. Blasted through fear; I want this life, not that life. … I made the decision by myself. But also with the remote-control help of my mother: ‘Don’t come home pregnant.'”

Abortions are sought by a wide range of people for many different reasons. There is no single story. Telling stories of then and now shows how critical abortion has been and continues to be for women and girls. (Share your abortion story by emailing myabortionstory@msmagazine.com.)