Freedom rarely disappears all at onceIt happens slowly. One law. One court decision. One more exception to a right people thought they had. Most of it started long before the first page of this series. Americans have been watching the boundaries of their rights shift for decades, sometimes so gradually that it’s easy to miss how far they’ve moved.By Her Hand asks what happens if they keep moving. Reproductive freedom is only part of it. Privacy. Fr...

What happens when becoming a father is no longer a choice?Sam Maxwell is looking forward to graduating from college. After breaking up with his on-again, off-again girlfriend for good, his life is suddenly derailed by a summons to Family Court. Wisconsin's pro-birth laws declare him the biological father of an embryo, which has been appointed a ward of the state.Struggling with the sudden loss of his athletic scholarship, friends, and freedom after being pl...

The Test Was Positive. She Didn’t Believe It.Rylee Williams is eighteen and ready to plan her gap year before she starts at Wellesley College. One year to travel, volunteer, and really live life without her parents looking over her shoulder.A pregnancy test changes everything.Her family doctor had said it was nearly impossible. The result must be wrong. And her parents can’t be part of this. In the Williams family, problems are managed quietly and a...

She dreamed of adventure. Now she’s detained by the authorities. Her crime? She’s pregnant.Rylee Williams is looking forward to a fun-filled gap year before she heads East for college. An extended trip to Europe. Volunteering for her congregation’s Home Mission. Maybe even mentoring for her old high school’s robotics team.Pregnancy was the last thing that she expected. Detained under the Unborn Child Protection Act and forced into the Wisconsin Individual F...

She was raised to think for herself. Now, she’s being told who to become.Allison Maxwell has spent the last two years in Hamburg with her father, growing up in a world that values intellect and independence. But when a spike in global tensions forces her to return to Manhattan, she finds herself trapped in a version of home that no longer makes sense.At Vanguard Preparatory Academy—a school reserved for the children of the powerful elite—boys are trained to...