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With Liberty and Justice for All, January 2006
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With Liberty and Justice for All
Kate Michelman

A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose

Hudson Street Press
January 2006
278 pages
ISBN: 1594630062
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

From "one of the most powerful women in Washington" (Washingtonian) and a "legend and leader" (Vanity Fair) comes a book that concerns the future of our country, our society, and our world

From With Liberty and Justice for All:
The room was sterile, sparsely decorated, the only furniture, a rectangular conference table. A fluorescent light hung from the ceiling.

I sat on one side of the table, staring at four suited men, who stared coldly back. One of them, clearly in charge of the proceedings, sat at the table’s head.

The questions began.

Did I dress my children each morning?

Was I capable of feeding them?

What kind of sex life did my husband and I have?

Their interrogation, probing the most intimate details of my personal life, was humiliating, but not nearly as humiliating as its purpose. In order to make one of the most morally grounded decisions of my life, the United States government required that I convince these four strangers that I was mentally or emotionally unbalanced. In order to make the choice I knew was best for my three little girls, I had to be declared unfit to raise a child.

My decision was to have an abortion in America in 1970—three years before Roe v. Wade recognized reproductive freedom as a constitutional right.

I do not tell my story because it is unique; I share it because it is so common. Millions of women in varying circumstances have suffered the indignities and dangers of pre– Roe v. Wade abortions.

Incredibly, America is on the brink of subjecting women to this tragic reality once more.

This book is an urgent wake-up call to American women to defend their freedom in its hour of greatest danger. Important and intensely personal, it is a book about freedom, and a woman’s right to assume her equal place in American society.