2022 — The Monarch Review

MONTY – Misha Berson

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 18:40 — 1 Comment

When I consider how I got into the daunting business of running a women’s health clinic where abortions are often performed, I think of Monty. Her given name was Montgomery, bestowed on her by parents who wanted a son and chose to name their daughter after a great-uncle. But since her peers in kindergarten couldn’t articulate all four syllables, she was Monty from age five on. Monty came to San Francisco from a mid-sized rural town in Ohio, where her family had lived for several generations – something unimaginable to me, an urban child of immigrants. They were church-y people […]