Lorraine Berry

Lorraine Berry has written for Signature, The Guardian (UK), LitHub, Catapult, Diagram, Redbook, Marie Claire, Salon, Paste, Electric Literature, and other outlets. After teaching creative nonfiction for years, she moved to Florida to be close to her widowed mother, where she hangs out with the pelicans and herons. Follow her on Twitter @BerryFLW.

HR 358, The Let Women Die Act of 2011, Is Tantamount to Legal Rape

When it comes down to it, these laws represent legal rape. If rape is the insertion of an object into the body of an unwilling person, then what else can you call laws insisting that a woman submit to pregnancy regardless of her age, the circumstances under which she became pregnant, her health, or her general well-being?