Voices of Courage Archives

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October 17, 2017

Last year I found out that the mutated BRCA2 gene (the gene mutation associated with breast cancer) runs in my family. As a woman in […]

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October 16, 2017

As a trainee, I had the honor of caring for a patient who courageously opted to terminate her pregnancy. She was a woman in her […]

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October 15, 2017

Women need and deserve a safe place to talk about their reproductive health. I am 24, and I am a virgin. I simply haven’t been […]

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October 14, 2017

Just a few weeks into my new job in Indiana, I saw a twenty-three-year-old mother of a nine-month-old baby girl. She just recently was able […]

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October 13, 2017

When I was eleven years old, I was away at summer camp and my period started. My counselors congratulated me. My mom was excited on […]

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October 12, 2017

Last year, I took care of a couple who had to travel from North Carolina to Maryland for an abortion for a severe fetal anomaly, […]

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October 11, 2017

My story is nothing special or extraordinary. I was seventeen, a high school senior, and pregnant. My decision to have an abortion was the right […]

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October 10, 2017

Lydia sobbed and clutched her rosary. Between the tears, she told me that she had been a practicing Catholic all her life. She had saved […]