ACCESS TO THE FULL RANGE OF REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES IS... Presented as a two-page spread that resembles a board game—a combination of chess, with alternating black and white squares, and a choose your own adventure map— with arrows that direct the reader down or across from a given square.
An ovary in the lower left corner of the panel releases an egg to a fallopian tube rendered in a horizontal orientation as it would be anatomically in a woman standing
Walking toward an abortion while onlookers shout epithets and insults (sinner, murderer, baby killer etc)
Curled inward with pain and deep soul searching on account of unplanned pregnancy
The fallopian tube connects to the previous panel leading directly to a uterus
A dance embodying the complexity of reproductive choice
Fertilized egg
Nursing mother is seated. In a thought balloon are the words: “This would be a lot easier if all new mothers had six months paid leave”
A woman is sad because she is not pregnant
An ovary releasing an egg into a fallopian tube heading downward on the page
Birth Dance in goddess pose
Leaping with joy for a planned pregnancy
Dancing while very pregnant
Mothers across bottom of square, each saying how their child has died (most say shot and others mention sickness and accidental deaths)
A happy woman doing a dance move that involves standing on her hands celebrating
In Vitro Fertilization close up of a petri dish with eggs being pulled into a tube for insertion into a woman’s uterus
Miscarriage
Mother dancing with her baby
Mother dancing with older child
her choice not to become a mother
Pregnant woman leaping with joy: Text directs the reader to go one space to the right and two up (like a knight in chess moves), to join the joyful pregnancy thread in panel
Words to close the sentence that the title began “…essential for creating a world that cares for and brings equity to all women and children.”
The same happy woman dancing with one foot on tip toe, her other knee bent and her arms overhead as in yoga tree pose
Mother and adult child or any two adults forming a heart shape together through their dance
Kneeling in grief
Kneeling in grief
by DANA WALRATH
This comic was set into motion, after the SCOTUS leak, when guest editor Rowena Richie sent Dana this quotation from Sima Belmar: “Miscarriage, abortion, fertility treatments, birth, motherhood, losing a child–we dance through all these experiences.”
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In Dance | May 2014 | dancersgroup.org
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