This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
One doctor's raw and riveting memoir, contrasting the headline-grabbing political rhetoric with the contours of her life, and the lives of her patients
One doctor's raw and riveting memoir, contrasting the headline-grabbing political rhetoric with the contours of her life, and the lives of her patients
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781586486471 (1586486470)
Publish date: December 29th 2008
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Feminism,
Health,
Medical,
Politics,
Biography Memoir,
Medicine,
Womens
“Because it is such a secret, we lose sight of how common it is.” Abortion is one of those topics that not many people talk about. To talk about abortion is a gross violation of good breeding, or it was. Since Roe v. Wade, there seems to be a war waging between people who believe in having abortion ...
It took me less than a day to read this book. While I didn't really "learn" anything I didn't already "know," having been very interested in women's rights, this book taught me so much and I am so glad to have read it. While I knew the facts and I knew about just how crazy the anti-choice crowd ca...