Valerie Tarico

Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light and Deas and Other Imaginings, and the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org. Her articles about religion, reproductive health, and the role of women in society have been featured at sites including AlterNet, Salon, the Huffington Post, Grist, and Jezebel.

Eleven Inane and Insulting Anti-Abortion Arguments (and How I Shed the Shamers)

Valerie Tarico

Here are eleven shaming themes I've encountered, along with my responses, to help other pro-choice advocates prepare for the muck that's likely to get slung our way as the right wing continues its crusade against reproductive health-care providers.

How America’s Obsession With ‘Bad Birth Control’ Harms Women

Valerie Tarico

Many women know more about the risks of birth control than about how the right contraceptive might improve their lives.

Using Aikido to Change the Abortion Conversation

Valerie Tarico

Aikido is a Japanese martial art that makes use of the attacker’s own momentum as a defensive strategy. I suggest pro-choicers take the disgust, found on posters with anti-abortion messages or pictures of fetal remains, and in a non-confrontational, nonviolent way, amplify and redirect it.

Abortion as a Blessing, Grace, or Gift: Changing the Conversation on Reproductive Rights and Moral Values

Valerie Tarico

If we want Americans to understand and distance themselves from the moral emptiness of the “pro-life” movement, we will have to challenge the patriarchs on their home turf, in their position as moral guides.

Better Birth Control for Men: 8 Promising Possibilities

Valerie Tarico

We all, men and women alike, should be demanding better birth control for men.

Why a 20-Week Abortion Ban Is Unthinkable: One Woman’s Near-Death Experience

Valerie Tarico

Childbearing is inherently dangerous, and it is time that the risks of pregnancy became a part of our national conversation about contraception and abortion.

Do Religious Restrictions Force Doctors to Commit Malpractice?

Valerie Tarico

Across the United States, religious health-care corporations are absorbing once secular and independent hospitals and in the process imposing religious restrictions that sometimes pit standard medical practice against theology.

Valerie Tarico

Eleven Inane and Insulting Anti-Abortion Arguments (and How I Shed the Shamers)

How America’s Obsession With ‘Bad Birth Control’ Harms Women

Using Aikido to Change the Abortion Conversation

Abortion as a Blessing, Grace, or Gift: Changing the Conversation on Reproductive Rights and Moral Values

Better Birth Control for Men: 8 Promising Possibilities

Why a 20-Week Abortion Ban Is Unthinkable: One Woman’s Near-Death Experience

Do Religious Restrictions Force Doctors to Commit Malpractice?

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