Winifred is Banished From the Plantation: The Story of My Great Great Grandmother

Shortly before Emancipation, a sixteen-year-old female slave named Winifred was given a modest amount of money and a stove, and was banished from the eastern Kentucky plantation where she had lived all her life. Winifred’s crime? Becoming pregnant after being raped by the slavemaster’s 16-year old son. It is said that Winifred’s offspring, the [...]

Supreme Court Stays Prisoner’s Abortion

“The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would require Missouri prison officials to take an inmate to get an abortion. A federal judge had said the state would be violating the inmate’s rights unless it drove her to get the abortion. He ordered the state to do so, even though the state had [...]