They’re Closing the Abortion Clinics in the Name of God
An abortion made this former Hasidic woman pro-choice. Now living in Texas, where only 7 clinics remain, she’s able to shed light on what it feels like to believe your body is not your own.
Leah Lax
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Leah Lax has published award-winning short fiction, prose poetry, essays in anthologies and magazines, a major opera (with NPR broadcast), and a forthcoming memoir entitled UNCOVERED.
I Was an Invisible Woman
The formerly Hasidic writer used to be covered from head to toe when she went out in public. Then she uncovered her true self.