The Emma Goldman Clinic Wants to Hear About Your Experience

Sorted under reproductive rights on June 3, 2008

I received an email a few days ago from the Medicaid Organizer for The Emma Goldman Clinic in Iowa City, IA. The clinic is starting an abortion stories project detailing the personal experiences of women who experienced financial setbacks or barriers any time in the process of seeking an abortion in Iowa.

The clinic is a non-profit, feminist reproductive health clinic who are doing all they can to ensure that all women receive the reproductive health care that they need regardless of their financial state.

If you are a woman who has experienced financial setbacks or barriers due to having an abortion in Iowa, The Emma Goldman Clinic is asking for your stories. The site goes into detail on ways that you can help share your story, either publicly or privately. In order to share your story, please go here or email emmagoldmanclinic@gmail.com.



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  • Henrietta G. Tavish
    As the Clinic’s Medicaid Organizer has indicated at Feministe, the request for stories is not restricted to those women who actually had abortions. Rather, the clinic is also interested in stories from women who were compelled to give birth due to financial hardship.

    I've also suggested that it might be a good idea to solicit stories from grandparents who are being forced to raise unplanned grandchildren after their daughters were financially compelled to give birth. Studies show that unplanned surrogate parenting is emotionally and physically draining. The generation gap is larger than between parent and child, questions regarding legal rights can cause complications, and the burden often leads to the abandoment of leisure and retirement pursuits.
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