9/22/2011
Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade Review
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(More customer reviews)This book makes it clear that the Doctors who provided abortions when the procedures were still illegal risked their medical credentialing and professional standing. If they had been discovered, including by an office worker, they could have lost that license or gone to jail. Wanting women to have control over our own lives and access to health care was illegal
And today, my generation finds itself in an interesting paradigm. Because while the state officially allows the performance of abortion, protestors take it upon themselves to hunt and terrorize the doctors who perform this procedure. This climate has chilling repercussions because 86 percent of American counties now lack a medically licensed abortion provider. Wanting women to have access to health care places their lives physically at risk.
With all of the news stories about clinic protests and doctor shootings, it's easy for American citizens to become discouraged, feeling like extremists are winning. But this book gave me effective 'pain relief' by reminding me that we are not alone. There are doctors wanting us to obtain health care.
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Labels:
abortion,
birth control,
public policy,
social services
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