Preventing Unwanted Pregnancies Through Education and Access to Birth Control

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This chapter explores the complexities of unwanted pregnancies, emphasizing the necessity of proper education and access to birth control. It also touches on the historical context of infanticide, advocating for solutions like education and economic empowerment rather than restricting access to abortion.

Michelle Dowd was born into an ultra-religious cult, “The Field,” started in the 1930s by her grandfather, who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live five hundred years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came.

Michelle Dowd is a professor of journalism at Chaffey College and contributor to The New York Times, Alpinist, The Los Angeles Book Review, Catapult, OnlySky, and other national publications. She founded The Chaffey Review, an award-winning literary journal, advises student media, teaches poetry and critical thinking in the California State prisons, and has been recognized as a Longreads Top 5 for The Thing with Feathers, on the relationship between environmentalism and hope. Her memoir is Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult.