Updates and Upcoming: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Foreign Correspondent."

Hi everyone. I apologize for the lack of updates to this site - life has just been so hard and overwhelming this past year and a half, hasn’t it? My little family is as well as can be, all considered, and we are grateful that we have been able to stay healthy in the midst of Covid. We’ve been trying to soak up time with each other and enjoy every second of Hannah. She’s two and a half now, and best summed up with the phrase: abundant sunshine. 

While I haven’t been updating here, I have been as diligent and focused on fighting for Grace as ever: I have told my story countless times. I have presented advice to OB-GYNs and other medical professionals as to how they can improve abortion patients’ experiences as part of a NASPOG panel. I have submitted testimony to the legislature numerous times. I have helped others process their own experiences and tell their own stories.

In regards to media, on 8/5, Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Foreign Correspondent will be airing an episode focused on abortion laws and access in the United States, and the overall many threats to abortion that are happening here. St. Louis, Missouri (where I live) serving as the representative of the entire United States: one state (Missouri) with a dire lack of abortion access, nonsensical and draconian laws, and an ever-growing threat that these hits will keep coming; and another state (Illinois), just across the river, where reproductive rights have been protected and codified into law. 

I am part of the story, and share the experience of learning about Grace’s disease, how we made the decision to end the pregnancy, the difficulties we encountered while obtaining our abortion, and what it has been like becoming an advocate for reproductive rights.

I’ll post again here as soon as I have a link to the full story.