by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 8, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
In my early twenties, I worked as an abortion counselor. This was in the mid-1980’s before abortion providers’ lives were on the line and groups like Operation Rescue targeted clinics ruthlessly. Even then, late abortions were rare. During the two years I...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 10, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Because this perspective is filtering in slowly, I wanted to call attention to some smart thinking about Dr. Tiller's murder. Amy Goodman wrote a piece in Huffington Post about Dr. Tiller's murder having been preventable. In her article, she asks, what if the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 13, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
With economic turmoil on the minds of Main Street, Wall Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, your street and mine, conversations about money are substantively different than before the economy hit the skids. Collectively, we seem to be grappling with all kinds of things, from...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 16, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
I'm going to write one of those posts based on the theory that the blogosphere is a small place (if you live in a big city and run into people you know regularly, you know what I mean). Over at Babble, Katie Allison Granju wrote yesterday about something I've...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 18, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Yesterday afternoon, in the space of maybe five minutes, I was served with two reminders both of how loaded words can be and how difficult it is to navigate our lives without letting our assumptions—and our experiences—unintentionally collide in hurtful...