Bethanie Ryan

Imagine that a man is walking to his car from work after dark one evening. He reaches his car and begins fishing in his pocket for his keys when all of a sudden, he is hit from behind. He falls to the ground and is kicked repeatedly. Through the fury of pain he feels in […]

Dear Feminists for Life, In the pages that follow, I don’t just see abstractions. I see my family, friends, and, yes, myself. As feminists, we know that there is a dark spectrum of violence. Abortion is one of many forms of violence against women. While we never invite pain, if we can work through tragedy

When Marion Syversen was 15 years old, desperate for affection, and hoping to escape her unstable home and drug-addicted mother, she decided the best way to achieve both was to get pregnant — on purpose. “I wanted the baby to be adopted, and I thought the baby’s new family could adopt me, too,” she recalls.

In 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in a last desperate effort to gain actor Jodie Foster’s attention, wounding the president and several others. Beginning in May 1988, Margaret Ray repeatedly visited late-night television host David Letterman’s home, and, after 10 months in prison and 14 months in a mental institution,