Anna Clark

RH Reality Check

Anna Clark’s writing has appeared in The American Prospect, Utne
Reader, AlterNet, Hobart, Writers’ Journal, Bitch Magazine, Religion
Dispatches, Common Dreams, The Women’s International Perspective,
Women’s eNews, ColorLines, Rewire, The Millions, make/shift,

and BloodLotus, among other publications. She is the editor of the
literary and social justice website, Isak (www.isak.typepad.com), and
she contributes video book reviews to The Collagist, a literary magazine.

Anna is a writing mentor through the Linkage program in the Prison
Creative Arts Project. She is also the Chief Developmental Editor with
The Imagine Company, a Kenyan organization that marries media and
social entrepreneurship. Anna is a graduate of the University of
Michigan’s Residential College and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program
for Writers. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Birthing Chains: Anti-Shackling Rally in New York

Only four states have policies that bar the shackling of pregnant women in prisons, jails, and detention centers. With nearly unanimous legislative support for the Anti-Shackling Bill, New York looks like its on the verge of becoming the fifth state to restrict a practice that is considered torture by the United Nations--but only if Governor Dave Paterson allows it into law. Urge Governor Paterson to sign the bill at the Anti-Shackling Rally on July 9.

Melissa Harris-Lacewell: A New Era of Opportunity

In an outstanding presentation titled "Embracing Your Promise: A New Era of Opportunity," Harris-Lacewell honed in on how racial and gender experiences intersect with our reproductive health. Particularly, she pointed to the physiological impact of shame and isolation.

On the Murder of Dr. George Tiller

While of course everybody has the right to personally oppose abortion, the killing and harassment of Dr. Tiller is beyond the pale. The hypocrisy of murder being the recourse of someone who is "pro-life" is so evident it barely needs discussing.

Teens Who Parent Still Need School

The nation with the highest adolescent pregnancy and birth rates in the industrialized world has not figured out how to meet the educational needs of pregnant and parenting teens. In fact, we're going the other direction - gutting the too-rare programs that have developed to meet the unique needs of teen parents.

The Adoption Consensus?

When emotions get heated among those who disagree on abortion rights, it can be easy to settle the conversation by calling on adoption as a "compromise." Is treating adoption as a solution to abortion the best way to craft sensible adoption policy?

How to Push Abortion Out of Women’s Reach in Four Days or Less

Family Research Council members convinced a New Jersey hotel to stop offering discounted room rates to women coming to the state seeking abortion care. Is cutting off assistance for lodging and travel for women seeking abortion care the best way to help or simply a low-blow to women in vulnerable circumstances?