Pro-Voice

Introduction

My daughter has a lot of issues; she’s into drugs and trouble,” Angela (not her real name) said in Spanish. “When I was pregnant, I was scared and didn’t know what to do, and I thought about having an abortion. I think God is punishing me just for thinking about it.”

Angela was one of a dozen women sitting in a circle talking about how abortion had had an impact on their lives and the lives of their loved ones. The discussion was facilitated by my organization, Exhale, at a local job-training program for immigrant women in San Francisco. In addition to skills training in computers and electronics, the program connected the women to local community resources like ours. Exhale, the nonprofit organization that I cofounded after my own ...