Written by Candace Kronen
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/texas-midwife-abortion-
state-ban (excerpt)
Texas midwife arrested for
allegedly providing abortions amid
state’s near-total ban
.
Candace Kronen is a poet, activist, and speech-language pathologist living in Ontario, Canada. Her work has been nominated for the 2026 Best of the Net, as well as shortlisted for the 2026 Central Avenue Poetry Prize and longlisted for Only Poems’ Bob Hicok Fellowship. Candace is the co-editor of the poetry anthology If You Ever: Poems Inspired by Kim Addonizio. Additional writing can be found on Substack at “Stories I’ll Tell My Daughter” and on Instagram @candacekronenpoetry.