“Abortion and reproductive freedom are often touchy subjects, but artist Heather Ault does not shy away from it. Ault spoke in the Bovee University Center Auditorium Tuesday night as part of the art department’s Barstow Lecture Series.” View article
“Artist and activist Heather Ault, an Illinois resident, developed a series of visual narratives about the international history of abortion and contraception, known as “4000 Years for Choice.” View article
i am loving this artist’s work. incredible. visually arresting and powerful words. if you are interested in seeing more of her work, or better yet purchasing it, you can purchase posters on etsy… View article
Abortion protesters stake out Mott Haven clinic in national 40 Days for Life campaign – A Bronx women’s health clinic finds itself the target of anti-abortion activists from around the nation… A slew of responses to the 40 Days For Life campaign have cropped up across the country. Heather Ault, an artist and graduate student at the University of Illinois, started her own 4,000 Years of Choice project in opposition to the protests… View article
As someone who sees a great many clients with a variety of issues, I am often surprised by the amount of misinformation people are saddled with. But I am just as frequently angered by the amount of dis-information they have been exposed to. Dis-information is better known by it’s franker, and shorter name: lies… View article
4000 Years for Choice is a campaign created by artist Heather Ault. It dispels the common idea that abortion and contraceptive rights began with 20th-century feminism… View article
Take a look at these photos and the history of 4000 years for Choice from Heather Ault… View article
Check out this sweet new campaign, 4000 years for choice, created by artist and activist Heather Alut. The concept of the project is to send postcards (gorgeously designed) in response to women’s health clinics being targeted by the anti-choice campaign “40 Days for life”… View article
On February 17th, anti-choicers started the “40 Days for Life” campaign, where they show up at abortion clinics and harass patients and employees even more than usual. Now there’s a great (and informative) response: 4,000 Years for Choice. The conclusion: Women have, forever, been trying to control their reproductive capacities and determine for themselves the number and spacing of their children…. View article
Have you ever wondered what women did to control their fertility in the days before The Pill? I know I have. A new website is hoping to shed some light on the history of birth control. 4000 Years for Choice visualizes the ancestral traditions passed down for millennia by lineages of mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers. The rediscovery of these practices is deeply transformative when one considers “the right to choose,” especially for those who have been exposed to the “abstinence until marriage” and “anti-abortion” rhetoric… View article
Visual artist Heather Ault launched a new pro-choice arts activism to push back against a nasty campaign of anti-women harassers. The antis get their jollies at this time of the year by swarming women’s reproductive health centers and abortion clinics for 40 days — Ault calls it “the pro-life movement’s occupation”… View article
What a cool site: 4000 Years for Choice is all about art, history & the pro-choice movement to educate and transform people. Heather Ault is the artist behind this, and she has some inspiring pieces! See it here… View article
4000 Years for Choice, a new campaign created by designer/artist/activist Heather Ault, sends beautifully designed postcards exhibiting facts about ancient forms of contraception and abortion to women’s health clinics across the country on a weekly basis. A direct response to anti-choice groups such as 40 Days for Life who spread horrific anti-abortion messages to the same clinics, 4000 Years for Choice dispels the common notion that abortion and contraceptive rights began with the twentieth century women’s liberation movement and sheds light on these practices’ ancient past. Check out 4000YearsForChoice.com to see all of the designs, which are also available printed on postcards and posters at the campaign’s Etsy Shop… View article
Ohhhhhhh, now I get it. The Harper Theocracy doesn’t care for contraception or women’s reproductive rights because these are pagan, pre-Christian concepts. (Anybody else notice how miserable everybody was back when the Church was in charge?) Which brings us to this nifty new website, 4000 Years for Choice… View article
The “40 Days of Life” Campaign is slated to last from February 17 – March 28. I know this is truly depressing and it hurts, but there is a counter campaign this year that might make you smile… View article
