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After Abortion
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14670 |
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BOOK WORLD
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11 / 1988 |
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Lucy Mazareski
Lucy Mazareski reviews frequently for Catholic publications. |
ABORTED WOMEN, SILENT NO MORE
David C. Reardon
Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1988
373 pp., $9.95
Abortion is an impassioned subject. Since 1973, when the Supreme Court legalized abortion, the issue has continued to spark heated political and moral debate and at times violent dissension between the two opposing sides, pro-life and pro-choice. Both sides stand on certain rights: the right to life versus the right to freedom of choice.
Between the two sides is a gray area only rarely explored and held open to public view. It is a region peopled by those who have the most to say about abortions--the women who have experienced them and are willing to discuss them openly. Aborted Women, Silent No More is a journey into this cinereous region. It is a profoundly disturbing journey, yet of a kind that is sooner or later necessary for all who would go beyond the comfortable ideology of abortion into its excruciating reality.
What the Survey Shows
The book is a concerted effort by author David C. Reardon and the national organization known as Women Exploited By Abortion (WEBA), founded in 1982 by Nancyjo Mann. In her foreword, Mann describes her own abortion experience, with its subsequent severe physical complications ending in total hysterectomy at the age of twenty-two, followed by years of guilt and anger. WEBA's membership, in forty-two state chapters, is made up of women who, like Mann, have felt
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