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What the Flux with Deborah Siegel-Acevedo

I’ve Always Cared About Abortion Rights. It’s Never Been Enough.

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Debi Lewis
Mar 24, 2025
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She was sixteen and one of the best callers at the long, brown folding tables I oversaw. I was fluffed-up at nineteen with my new title of Supervisor, earned after a year of telephone fundraising for progressive, liberal causes. Our task that night – and for most of 1993 – was to raise money for the National Abortion Rights Action League. We were paid b…

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Debi Lewis has written for The New York Times, Huffington Post, Bon Appetit, Wired, and more. Her memoir was published in 2022, and she returns now to her roots as a fiction writer, focusing on stories of personal agency.
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