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Title Life's work : from the trenches, a moral argument for choice / Dr. Willie Parker
Imprint New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2017
©2017

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Edition First 37 Ink/Atria books hardcover edition
Descript 217 pages 23 cm
Note An abortion provider and Christian reproductive justice advocate draws from his personal journey and professional scientific training as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe, unequivocally, that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do. Dr. Willie Parker grew up in the Deep South, lived in a Christian household, and converted to an even more fundamentalist form of Christianity as a young man. But upon reading an interpretation of the Good Samaritan in a sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he realized that in order to be a true Christian, he must show compassion for all women regardless of their needs. In 2009, he stopped practicing obstetrics to focus on providing safe abortions for the women who need help the most -- often women in poverty and women in the South, the hotbed of the pro-choice debate. He soon thereafter traded in his private practice and his penthouse apartment in Hawaii for the life of an itinerant abortion provider, moving between Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Dr. Willie Parker tells a deeply personal narrative, one that illuminates the complex societal, political, religious, and personal realities of abortion in the United States from the perspective of someone who performs them and defends the right to do so every day. He also looks at how a new wave of anti-abortion activism, aimed at making incremental changes in laws and regulations state by state, is chipping away at the rights of women to control their own lives. In revealing his daily battle against mandatory waiting periods, bogus rules, and pseudoscience, Dr. Parker uncovers the growing number of strings attached to a woman's right to choose and makes a powerful Christian case for championing reproductive rights
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Subject Parker, Willie (Willie J.)
Parker, Willie (Willie J.)
Aborter
Födelsekontroll
Kvinnors rättigheter
Läkare
Aborter -- religiösa aspekter
Aborter -- etik och moral
Abortion, Induced
Religion and Medicine
Physicians.
Pro-choice movement.
Reproductive rights.
Women's rights.
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Förenta staterna
United States.
Biografi
Personal Narrative
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Classmark 363.46092
BIO017000
Add Title From the trenches, a moral argument for choice
ISBN/ISSN 9781501151125 (hardcover)
1501151126 (hardcover)
9781501151132
1501151134
9781501151149
1501151142
(ebook) 9781501151149 1501151142
(ebook) 9781501151149 1501151142
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