Parker, Willie
Life's work : from the trenches, a moral argument for choice / From the trenches, a moral argument for choice Dr. Willie Parker. - First 37 Ink/Atria books hardcover edition. - 217 pages ; 23 cm
Prologue: The women -- Conversion -- Grace of God -- "That girl" -- Dreams -- Putting her first -- Practicing abortion -- Slings and arrows -- Preaching truth -- Black genocide and the white majority -- My sisters' keeper -- Homecoming -- Ethical abortion care -- A new theology of abortion.
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.--
Text in English.
9781501151125 1501151126 9781501151132 (pbk)
Simon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 SAN 200-2442
2017289236
101708033 DNLM
Parker, Willie
Parker, Willie
Physicians--United States--Biography.
Abortion--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.
Pro-choice movement--United States.
Women's rights--United States.
Reproductive rights--United States.
Physicians.
Abortion, Induced.
Reproductive Rights.
Women's Rights.
Religion and Medicine.
Women's rights--United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Medical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs.
United States.
Personal Narratives.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
R154.P258 / A3 2017
2017 E-446 WZ 100
Life's work : from the trenches, a moral argument for choice / From the trenches, a moral argument for choice Dr. Willie Parker. - First 37 Ink/Atria books hardcover edition. - 217 pages ; 23 cm
Prologue: The women -- Conversion -- Grace of God -- "That girl" -- Dreams -- Putting her first -- Practicing abortion -- Slings and arrows -- Preaching truth -- Black genocide and the white majority -- My sisters' keeper -- Homecoming -- Ethical abortion care -- A new theology of abortion.
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.--
Text in English.
9781501151125 1501151126 9781501151132 (pbk)
Simon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 SAN 200-2442
2017289236
101708033 DNLM
Parker, Willie
Parker, Willie
Physicians--United States--Biography.
Abortion--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.
Pro-choice movement--United States.
Women's rights--United States.
Reproductive rights--United States.
Physicians.
Abortion, Induced.
Reproductive Rights.
Women's Rights.
Religion and Medicine.
Women's rights--United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Medical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs.
United States.
Personal Narratives.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
R154.P258 / A3 2017
2017 E-446 WZ 100