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Roe v Wade…Again to Fight
When I was 16, I knew I was a woman. This realization came from the core of my awareness. I felt an assuredness as solid and calm as a growing sapling. My feet were connected to the earth and my spirit became attached to the wide forest of women in the world. I was to become the attendant of women’s power and presence. I looked out the window of my boarding school bedroom and felt at one with the trees that filled my view.
That stance of power began my feminist path. Roe vs Wade had already been passed, so abortion was not something I had to fight for.
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Tagged abortion, Healing, Political Action, Roe v Wade
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Reckoning With My Past Abortion on Yom Kippur
Last Rosh Hashana as the shofar beckoned us toward the new year, to become brave as the breath of the Baal Tekiyah, to feel time wrap us in its tallit of embrace and release; I heard the cries of women, of mothers who had to let go of what they held most close-their children. Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Grief, Midrash, Prayers, temple, Yom Kippur
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The Cenafinla Illuminations 