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035 _a(OCoLC)ocn978298617
037 _bSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075
_nSAN 200-2442
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060 0 0 _a2017 E-446
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100 1 _aParker, Willie
_q(Willie J.),
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aLife's work :
_bfrom the trenches, a moral argument for choice /
_cDr. Willie Parker.
246 3 0 _aFrom the trenches, a moral argument for choice
250 _aFirst 37 Ink/Atria books hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_b37 Ink/Atria,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a217 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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505 0 _aPrologue: 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.
520 _aAn 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.--
_cSource other than the Library of Congress.
546 _aText in English.
600 1 0 _aParker, Willie
_q(Willie J.)
650 0 _aPhysicians
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAbortion
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 0 _aAbortion
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 _aPro-choice movement
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWomen's rights
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aReproductive rights
_zUnited States.
600 1 2 _aParker, Willie
_q(Willie J.)
650 1 2 _aPhysicians.
_0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010820
650 1 2 _aAbortion, Induced.
_0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000028
650 2 2 _aReproductive Rights.
_0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D046269
650 2 2 _aWomen's Rights.
_0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014933
650 2 2 _aReligion and Medicine.
_0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012068
651 2 _aUnited States.
_0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
655 2 _aPersonal Narratives.
_0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D062210
650 4 _aWomen's rights
_zUnited States.
655 4 _aAutobiographies.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
_xMedical.
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650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
_xPersonal Memoirs.
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655 7 _aAutobiographies.
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