Life, Death and Politics

TruthDig by Marie Cocco | Apr. 24, 2007 (Special Report)

The bleeding began just after Donna McNichol's routine exam in the early weeks of her first pregnancy. "They told me I might spot a little bit after the exam," she recalled in an interview. "But I wasn't spotting. I was flowing."

The pregnancy was planned and joyful. The young California health aide and her teacher husband had just announced it to their families with a celebratory video of themselves playing "Wheel of Fortune." "I was really ... Full Story »

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by Mary McFadden - Oct. 1, 2008

I don't know if it's journalism, but it is a personal story that is pertinent to current events. As an exapmle of the consequences of the recetn Supreme Court decisionto ban the procedure, it would be a useful sidebar to a larger work on the consequences of court decisions on citizens' lives.