Description
Book SynopsisBrings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counsellors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death.
Trade Review"Beautiful, depressing, and hopeful. This book is crucial for understanding the realities of abortion in America. As told by providers, women who have abortions, and scholars, the stories in this book upend the lie that paints abortion users and practitioners as frivolous and uncaring human beings.
Abortion Care reveals the the care, love, and deep morality that guides abortion practice."
-- Leslie J. Reagan * author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America *
"This collection contains some truly moving personal testimony that deserves a wide readership. The voices of providers are what make the collection so powerful." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *
"Beautiful, depressing, and hopeful. This book is crucial for understanding the realities of abortion in America. As told by providers, women who have abortions, and scholars, the stories in this book upend the lie that paints abortion users and practitioners as frivolous and uncaring human beings.
Abortion Care reveals the the care, love, and deep morality that guides abortion practice."
-- Leslie J. Reagan * author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America *
"This collection contains some truly moving personal testimony that deserves a wide readership. The voices of providers are what make the collection so powerful." -- Janet Golden * author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Providing Abortion Care
Part 1 Providers
1 A Narrative
Morris Turner
2 Being an Abortionist
Marc Heller
3 Establishing Abortion Counseling
Terry Beresford
Part 2 Clinics
4 Providing Compassionate Abortion Care in a Hostile Climate
Amy Hagstrom Miller
5 Improving Abortion Care One Clinic at a Time
Renee Chelian
Part 3 Conscience
6 From Conscience Clauses to Conscience Wars
Sara Dubow
7 Abortion as an Act of Conscience
Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
8 The Meaning of Viability in Abortion Care
Shelley Sella
9 Dangertalk: Voices of Abortion Providers
Lisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink, and Lisa H. Harris
Part 4 The Fetus
10 How Science Is Made: Nineteenth-Century Embryology and Fetal Interpretations
Shannon K. Withycombe
11 A Feminist Defense of Fetal Tissue Research
Thomas V. Cunningham
12 Definitions of Viability and Their Meaning for Neonatal Care
John Colin Partridge
Notes on Contributors
Index
