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This book is hands down one of the most powerful I’ve ever read, equal parts heartbreaking, anger-inducing, chilling, and also validating. It weaves together the history and politics of the anti-abortion movement with the personal stories of those who have been impacted by overturning Roe v Wade, and even as someone who considers herself deeply steeped and invested in the reproductive health fight, I learned a tremendous amount and found this to be eye-opening in so many ways.
There is a review on Goodreads that this book is redundant or “one note”. It is not redundant in the slightest, though let us all agree that there is only one note to outlawing or severely restricting abortion access: people will die. People are already dying, and it is disturbing and a deep betrayal to have politicians pretend that the United States is the greatest in the world while also making its women second-class citizens in policy and practice.
Let us be clear that we live in a post-Roe America now, where infant and maternal mortality is on the rise in states with abortion bans, because of every person who has empowered and continues to empower Trump and his criminal friends. These extremist politicians have been saying the silent part out loud, and it is time to take them at their word that they do not care about whether you live or die, and they will certainly not make sure you have a social safety net once you do have a child to support. Donald Trump and every single extremist running for public office is fucking despicable, and you can quote me on that.
There is a review on Goodreads that this book is redundant or “one note”. It is not redundant in the slightest, though let us all agree that there is only one note to outlawing or severely restricting abortion access: people will die. People are already dying, and it is disturbing and a deep betrayal to have politicians pretend that the United States is the greatest in the world while also making its women second-class citizens in policy and practice.
Let us be clear that we live in a post-Roe America now, where infant and maternal mortality is on the rise in states with abortion bans, because of every person who has empowered and continues to empower Trump and his criminal friends. These extremist politicians have been saying the silent part out loud, and it is time to take them at their word that they do not care about whether you live or die, and they will certainly not make sure you have a social safety net once you do have a child to support. Donald Trump and every single extremist running for public office is fucking despicable, and you can quote me on that.
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This book was heavy to read.
The author wrote that people stopped donating for abortion clinics b/c they thought it was pointless at this point. I can personally say (for me) that it was due to finances.
Other than that this book looked at every angle.
The author wrote that people stopped donating for abortion clinics b/c they thought it was pointless at this point. I can personally say (for me) that it was due to finances.
Other than that this book looked at every angle.
We are now back to living in a Post-Roe world. Many states now have laws that either outlaw or limit access to an abortion. Did anyone foresee or care about how this affected all women? This book covers the increased difficulty many women experience in receiving the care they need.
Compelling and urgent, this book deftly unpacks the confusion and cruelty of the post-Dobbs patchwork of state laws and abortion bans, the monumental strain that care providers now operate under, and the devastating difficulties that many patients now face in accessing abortion - or even learning what their options are. Extremely well-written and accessible even to readers not familiar with the history of abortion access in the US or the legal landscape post-Dobbs.
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A hugely important and inclusive book.
Abortion is healthcare.
Abortion is healthcare.
DNF 42%
I struggled with this book for more than one reason. At first, it was because the subject matter is a tough one, but that’s not what stopped me. It was because of the subject matter that I gave this more of a chance than I normally give other books.
The reason I stopped was because the book felt very disorganized and it became hard to follow. It isn’t a particularly long book, but the way it is written made it feel interminable. The author cites real people’s stories to show how certain legislation has affected people, which is a great method to get her point across, except we receive many of these stories piece meal and mixed in with other stories before going back to the original story. It jumped around so much that I often struggled to keep people and stories straight. Since none of those people’s stories really felt complete to me, I can only assume (since this was a DNF for me) that the author does come back around to them eventually. If not, then that, too, is problematic.
One of the other reasons I struggled with this book was because it was very obviously biased. Don’t get me wrong, my politics fully align with the author’s here, but who was her audience exactly? Who is she writing to, trying to convince? I failed to find, in the 42% I read, anything new to add to the conversation outside of giving us real people’s stories. I’ll admit that the way some of those stories were written made it difficult to be sympathetic even, which if I struggled with that, someone of an opposing viewpoint would ignore completely. The bias of this book only seems to appeal to people already aligned with pro-choice politics, only succeeding to tell people who agree with them more of what they want to hear, just like social media algorithms. If the author wants to make a difference and change someone’s mind, this book isn’t going to do it. But maybe that’s not her intent. Again, I have to ask who her audience is.
Case studies of the impact of a post Dobbs world are necessary to the conversation if we hope to improve women’s healthcare, but unfortunately, I don’t see this book doing that. It was a good attempt but poorly executed.
I struggled with this book for more than one reason. At first, it was because the subject matter is a tough one, but that’s not what stopped me. It was because of the subject matter that I gave this more of a chance than I normally give other books.
The reason I stopped was because the book felt very disorganized and it became hard to follow. It isn’t a particularly long book, but the way it is written made it feel interminable. The author cites real people’s stories to show how certain legislation has affected people, which is a great method to get her point across, except we receive many of these stories piece meal and mixed in with other stories before going back to the original story. It jumped around so much that I often struggled to keep people and stories straight. Since none of those people’s stories really felt complete to me, I can only assume (since this was a DNF for me) that the author does come back around to them eventually. If not, then that, too, is problematic.
One of the other reasons I struggled with this book was because it was very obviously biased. Don’t get me wrong, my politics fully align with the author’s here, but who was her audience exactly? Who is she writing to, trying to convince? I failed to find, in the 42% I read, anything new to add to the conversation outside of giving us real people’s stories. I’ll admit that the way some of those stories were written made it difficult to be sympathetic even, which if I struggled with that, someone of an opposing viewpoint would ignore completely. The bias of this book only seems to appeal to people already aligned with pro-choice politics, only succeeding to tell people who agree with them more of what they want to hear, just like social media algorithms. If the author wants to make a difference and change someone’s mind, this book isn’t going to do it. But maybe that’s not her intent. Again, I have to ask who her audience is.
Case studies of the impact of a post Dobbs world are necessary to the conversation if we hope to improve women’s healthcare, but unfortunately, I don’t see this book doing that. It was a good attempt but poorly executed.
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