The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion | 
| Creators: Gloria Steinem, Angela Bonavoglia
Publisher: Seal Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 790612
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1568581882
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.460973
EAN: 9781568581880
ASIN: 1568581882
Publication Date: March 30, 2001
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Every day in America, abortion providers and the women who need them are in danger. First published ten years ago, this collection of 25 powerful stories from contributors both famous and ordinary, privileged and poor, provides often harrowing insights into what happens when women are denied the right to choose. Testimonials from teenagers, college students, overloaded young mothers, and even a retired male Marine put a human face on one of this country’s most controversial issues and offer passionate arguments for access to legal and safe abortions.
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 Sad rationalization February 19, 2003
18 out of 126 found this review helpful
Its a sad rationalization of a series of horrible decisions. The fact the one writer says that having a child would have been far worse than the pain she experienced having an abortion is saddening. How could she not value another's life. It is a story of selfishness. Those should take a deeper look at what they are doing in supporting the death of a baby. ...
God bless.
 great stories from those who've experienced abortion... September 4, 2002
31 out of 37 found this review helpful
This book is a great read for background information and history on the women's right movement and abortion becoming legal in the United States. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. Themes about sadness and regret are very common and validating. It also discusses abortion from the man's perspective- one lost his mom! GOOOOOOOOOOOD book!
 Coat Hanger Days March 29, 2001
50 out of 59 found this review helpful
This is a terrific collection of first-person narratives by women who had illegal abortions in the days before Roe V Wade. Some are famous -- Whoopi Goldberg, Linda Ellerbee, Jill Clayburgh, Ursula K LeGuin, Grace Paley. Others are not. But all testify to the fear, desperation and danger that surround abortion when it is forced underground. Harsh religion, sexual ignorance, unsympathetic families, and vanishing boyfriends are recurring themes. Each woman tells her own story--vividly and naturally, without slogans or jargon. Coat hangers and death by sepsis or hemorrhage are not pro-choice propaganda -- they were realities not so long ago. I hope everyone who supports abortion rights will give this book to a friend who thinks maybe restricting abortion would be a good idea. A definite must for your local public library.
Stories to Justify Killing of the Unborn March 4, 2001
19 out of 140 found this review helpful
Well written book, and some very sad stories indeed, but all to justify to killing of their unborn children. I once my self was pro-choice, but after learning the facts that abortion really does kill another human being I could no longer appeal to these kind of bad argruments, sad though they may be. None of these stories could justify the killing of the unborn. It's sad to see that today we have a "class" of people the "unborn" being considered as trash, blobs of tissue, a product, instead ofwhat they really are "Precious unborn human persons"
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