Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom In The 21st Century | 
| Author: Alexander Sanger
Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1586483463
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9781586483463
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Publication Date: July 5, 2005
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Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger people are less and less supportive of reproductive rights. Since 1996, state legislatures have enacted nearly 300 pieces of anti-choice legislation. With Roe in jeopardy, International Planned Parenthood Council Chair Alexander Sanger asks a simple but heretical question: How many more pieces of anti-choice legislation will it take to get the pro-choice movement to rethink its approach to the issue?
In Beyond Choice Sanger explores the history of the reproductive rights movement to discover how it got stuck in its thinking, and then provides a convincing new argument for the moral rightness of its cause. He shows why it is vital to the health and survival of the human race that couples be able to have children, or not, when they choose; why reproductive rights are just as important to men as to women; and why, in an era of new reproductive technologies, completely unfettered choice is not morally defensible.
Beyond Choice is inspiring and important reading for women's rights advocates, opinion leaders, medical ethicists, and anyone concerned to preserve our freedom to reproduce, or not, without government intervention.
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 Save America; abort a liberal! October 7, 2007
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
The ab0rti0n issue is always a hot topic, one side seeks to save infants from an instant death, while the opposition wishes to snuff out these young lives before they've even had a chance at life, not unlike Chronos of Greek mythology, devouring his children as they leave the womb.
The opposition has made themselves look less like cannibalistic murderers by claiming that they have ab0rti0ns in order to protect the life of the mother. Well, if that were the case no body would be against ab0rti0n! Alas there are many reasons why women have abortions, health appearing very low on the ladder. Here is just the top ten in no specific order.
Top ten reasons why women get ab0rti0ns
1. Stretch marks? Ewww!
2. I'd get fat!
3. I'd have to give up partying!
4. I wouldn't be able to go on vacations anymore?
5. I don't know who the father is!
6. My daddy would kill me if he knew!
7. It will be a sacrifice to the Goddess.
8. I'd have to move out of Greenwich Village.
9. What would my feminist friends think...
10. I wouldn't be able to complete the 8th grade!
 Doesn't cite sources reliably July 4, 2007
Alexander Sanger clearly relies on his grandmother's reputation in order to sell his book. Rife with grammatical errors and uncited sources, Sanger constantly calls his own credibility as a competent researcher into question. His ideas ARE interesting, but without telling us where he gets his statistics from, he leaves those good ideas unsupported.
I am heartily glad I only paid $1 for this book.
Interesting...but takes it a little too far. January 2, 2007
Abortion as a moral positive? I consider myself a pro-choice liberal to the core, but I think that's taking it a bit too far. I'm all for birth control, and for women taking control of their sexual and reproductive destinies, but I think Sanger misses the boat here.
 The Defense of Women's Rights January 23, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The defense of women's rights might be called the key American battle. It goes without saying that these are reproductive rights. The right to control the size of one's family, or, indeed, not to have a family at all, was established with great courage and effort only recently, by the grandmother of the author of this book. In America today whatever position one holds on this essential matter of private life and social policy, what is absolutely critical is ongoing public debate and behind it, education. Every American should know and think carefully about this subject, hence every American should read this book. How fortunate we are that an intelligent, articulate author like Alexander Sanger is a committed champion of women's rights.
Choosing Abortion is Morally Positve January 20, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Alexander Sanger has clearly spent many years living with the complex issues related to human reproduction. His recent book, Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom In The 21st Century, is the intellectual product of his remarkable experience, and his gift to all of us who are interested in maintaining freedom as a moral imperative.
Indeed, the strongest argument in his book is that chosing abortion can be morally positive, because the availability of abortion maximizes successful human reproduction. Equally compelling are his thoughts on the role of men in support of reproductive freedom, and the new insights that emerge from evolutionary biology.
In short, every thinking woman and man will benefit from reading this deeply considered book.
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