Writing Vitae ~ Annie Banno

I.     PUBLISHED, PAID WRITING:

• Celebrate Life Magazine (American Life League)
  July-August 2004
  Article: "The Culture of Death Is On The March," pp. 16-18. First-hand account of the post-abortive Silent No More Awareness campaign's peaceful counterprotest at the April 25, 2004 "March for Women's Lives" in Washington, D.C. With author-contributed photos.
  
  
• Published literary fiction: Loosely-Braided Fog: A 3-D Single Mom in the Making. Publication date 2001. Publisher, Hats Off Books, Inc., 601 East 1st Street, Tucson, AZ 85705. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2001, (pseudonym) Deirdre A. Weaver. ISBN: 1-58736-024-1; LCCN: 200-1087294.
  
  About the life of a young woman on the way to becoming a single mom (but not by choice), the book earned 5-star reviews from Midwest Book Review and NAPRA ReView.
  

II.     QUOTED or MENTIONED IN::

• Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle, July 19, 2005.
  
• First Things - A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life, "God on the Internet" by Jonathan V. Last, Copyright (c) 2005 First Things 158 (December 2005): 34-40.
  
• New York Daily News, "Atheist's site is all the rave" by Dawn Eden, "Blog On!" Columnist, September 17, 2005.
  
• "Pro-Lifers: D.C. March Got Violent", National Catholic Register, by CARLOS BRICEÑO, Register Correspondent, May 9 – 15, 2004. Available in google's cache as of Sept. 14, 2005.
  
• Catholic News Service, Apr. 26, 2004.
  
• Catholic Educators' Resource Center, CERC Bi-Weekly Update, July 5, 2005, "Editorials of Interest."
  

III.     PORTAL WEBSITE COLUMNS:
Jan. 2003 - Present
CatholicExchange.com web portal

Invited by founder to contribute columns on post-abortive women's perspective for the Pro-Life Section. Columns usually within 700 word limit.


1. "Silent No More, But Silent This Once: Pro-Life at the Pro-Choice March." The full-length version of the Celebrate Life Magazine article, above.
   
2. "Roe v. Wade Motion to Overturn: What Really Happened?"
   
3. "A Love That Moves You to Tears"
   
4. "The Thrill of Hope"
   
5. "All Souls In Purgatory, Or Not?"
   
6. "In Time of Trial"
   
7. "The Battle Is Not Yours, But God's"
   
8. "The Mother and Child Reunion"
   
9. "One Person at a Time..."
   
10. "The Pain of Celebrating Mother's Day"
    
11. "Aching to Unburden, But Wondering How?"
    
12. "A New "Audience" — Revealing Your Abortion to Your Children"
13. "A New Message for the Pro-Life Movement"

IV.     WEB-LOG COLUMNS:
Jan. 2004 - Present
After Abortion blog:

146 columns: 66,757 words written; 697 outbound links (January 04- March '05). Three columns per week (average). Invited by founder to co-author.


1. Milgram’s Obedience Experiment.
   
2. Pro-Life, but...nothing.
   
   Help/Advice Columns resulting from unsolicited e-mails:
   
3. Unborn Down Syndrome baby needs adoptive parents.
   
4. Marfan-disabled man opposes embryonic stem cell research for his own disease.
   
5. Regretting IVF, woman wishes to save her frozen embryos from destruction.
   
   Researching & Exposing Truth:
   
6. Columnist Ellen Goodman and myth of “10,000 maternal deaths from abortion pre-Roe."
   
7. Ellen Goodman recants. (written by co-blogger Emily Peterson but shows effect of original post and reader involvement)
   
8. Columnist Cynthia Tucker pulls an "Ellen Goodman" on birth control and STD fallacies.
   
9. Refuting 2005 report on Uganda’s abstinence "failures."
   
10. FDA’s warning label on RU 486 (Abortion Pill).
    
11. Even more science proving the dangers of RU 486.
    
12. Birth control “patch” kills 17 women.
    
13. APA’s DSM of Mental Disorders listed abortion as a life event producing PTSD, for 7 years.
    
14. Forced abortions.
    
15. Planned Parenthood, Girl Scouts and Sex Ed. for 9-year-olds.
    
16. Planned Parenthood backtracks on promiscuity education.
    
17. Dissecting Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report, 2003-04.
    
18. Hillary switches rhetoric in ‘05, but does she change her spots?
    
19. Poor regulations in abortion and fertility clinics lead to...
    
20. Stem cell research pros & cons.
    
    Shredding the Myths about Abortion’s "Benefits" to Women
    
21. #1: Does getting an abortion hurt?
    
22. #2: How will I feel after an abortion?
    
23. #3: Any emotional problems after abortion?
    
24. #4: Does abortion cause breast cancer?
    
25. #5: Does an early abortion make ectopic, or tubal, pregnancy more likely in the future?
    
26. #6: What about future pregnancies? Will an early abortion affect my ability to have a child in the future?
    
27. #7: Does an early abortion cause premature birth or low infant birth weight in future pregnancies? Does an early abortion make miscarriage more likely in the future? Does having several abortions affect future pregnancies?
    
28. #8: Does an early abortion cause birth defects in future pregnancies?
    
29. #9: Does an early abortion increase the chance of infant death in the future?
    
30. #10: More women die from childbirth than from legal abortions.
    
31. #11: Women don’t die from legal abortions, only from illegal ones.
    
32. #12: If abortion is illegal, even more women will die than the 78,000 dying now.
    
33. #13: It’s my body; this doesn’t affect anyone else!
    
34. #14: You’ll go right back to being the person you were before.
    
35. #15: My reproductive rights and the "right to privacy" are guaranteed by the Constitution.


Jan. 2005 - Present
Purposeful Dreamer blog:


1. Abortions = 63.3% of Planned Parenthood revenue
   


V.     POETRY:
"Cracked Pot"
"Legacy"
"A Plea For Terri"
"Hide and Seek" and    "School's Out"
"The Job"
"Since 9/11"
"Snake-Charmer"
"Radio Silence"
"The Day The Music Died"
"Chasing Ashes"
"Batteries Not Required"
"Deathwatch"
"Restoration"
"Dance On The Bubble"
"Safe"
"His Business"
Genuine or Fake?
"The Tool"
"See Through"

O T H E R

A volunteer State Leader for Silent No More, a national women's movement of those who regret our abortions, joined in a free, confidential and nonjudgmental support group to help others find healing and forgiveness. Grieving, postabortive women of any age, race, faith, sexual orientation are welcome.

Writing about Post-Abortive Syndrome for CatholicExchange and web-blogs After Abortion, ProLife Blogs and Purposeful Dreamer.

Media interviews, quotes and speeches include: Associated Press, New York Daily News, First Things, National Catholic Register; Celebrate Life Magazine; TV’s "Crossroads;" "Voice For Life" Radio; speaker at 2003 state Right To Life and 2004 "Respect Life" Conferences.

Also, organized and conducted press conferences and composed press releases and communicated news information to statewide media outlets.

Extensive interviewing, speaking, writing, interpersonal skills; research persistence, business needs assessment, business management, sales and marketing, across 23 years of business experience.

E D U C A T I O N
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY,       B.A. PSYCHOLOGY, Cum Laude, 1980
 Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities
 Psychological National Honor Society
 President, Psychology Club

COMPUTER PROCESSING INSTITUTE,    BUSINESS PROGRAMMING, 1983
4.0 GPA, 600 Hour Program (evenings), Structured COBOL, BAL, RPG/III; financial applications.

A D D I T I O N A L        I N F O R M A T I O N
Avid writer, music- and pet-lover. Amateur bowler, in-line skater, bicyclist, dancer, tennis enthusiast, backgammon player and windsurfer.