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041 eng
082 04 363.46092|223
084 BIO017000|2bisacsh
092 0 363 Parker|bengelska
100 1 Parker, Willie|q(Willie J.)|4aut
245 10 Life's work :|bfrom the trenches, a moral argument for
choice /|cDr. Willie Parker
246 10 From the trenches, a moral argument for choice
250 First 37 Ink/Atria books hardcover edition
264 1 New York :|b37 Ink/Atria,|c2017
264 4 |c©2017
300 217 pages|c23 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
520 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
546 Text in English
600 10 Parker, Willie|q(Willie J.)
600 12 Parker, Willie|q(Willie J.)
650 7 Aborter|2sao
650 7 Födelsekontroll|2sao
650 7 Kvinnors rättigheter|2sao
650 7 Läkare|2sao
650 7 Aborter|xreligiösa aspekter|2sao
650 7 Aborter|xetik och moral|2sao
650 7 Physicians.|2fast
650 7 Pro-choice movement.|2fast
650 7 Reproductive rights.|2fast
650 7 Women's rights.|2fast
650 7 Abortion|xMoral and ethical aspects.|2fast
650 7 Abortion|xReligious aspects|xChristianity.|2fast
650 12 Abortion, Induced
650 22 Religion and Medicine
651 7 Förenta staterna|2sao
651 7 United States.|2fast
655 2 Personal Narrative
655 7 Biografi|2saogf
655 7 Autobiographies.|2fast
655 7 Biographies.|2fast
