Guest Commentator

April M. Short

BC Guest Commentator April M. Short is an editor, journalist and documentary editor and producer. She is a writing fellow at Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Previously, she served as a managing editor at AlterNet as well as an award-winning senior staff writer for Santa Cruz, California’s weekly newspaper. Her work has been published with the San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Salon and many others.

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Guest Commentary

All Human Rights Are at Stake When Abortions Are Banned

By April M. Short Guest Commentator

Now, many more women’s lives will be permanently disturbed by the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and maternal mortality rates are sure to rise due to unsafe pregnancies.

A shared ache radiates this summer across the collective of those of us born with breasts, wombs, and vaginas . It is the ache of a…

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