A Week at the Women’s Clinic

Ashley Herzog
18 min readDec 23, 2021

“Don’t kill your baby!”

The protesters waved signs spattered with blood and tiny dismembered limbs. They loomed over Shayla like lightning clouds, threatening to strike. She had her hand on the window pane of Jade’s car, drawing a heart in the dew, when the man in the hunting jacket appeared.

“Repent!” he spat. “There’s a special place in hell for women who kill their babies!”

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Ashley Herzog

New account. I’m still a professional journalist, novelist, and radio host. And Catherine’s mom.