Toni K. Thayer is a writing, editing & fundraising professional living in the Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area. She currently works as the development and communications associate at Preterm. Toni has worked previously at Cleveland State University, The LIT (Cleveland's Literary Center), the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, and the Cleveland Free Times. Also a fiction writer, a playwright and a mom, Toni is a graduate of Goddard College and Cleveland State University.
The new regulations on medication abortion are definitely bad law and bad medicine. But on a cultural level, how much of a woman’s decision re: whether or not to get an abortion — medication or otherwise — is influenced by societal shame and stigma surrounding the procedure?
