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My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
PublicAffairs
January 2008
On Sale: December 31, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 158648480X
EAN: 9781586484804
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
One doctor's raw and riveting memoir, contrasting the
headline-grabbing political rhetoric with the contours of
her life, and the lives of her patients. In This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her
emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines
of the abortion war. Growing up in working class, rural
Wisconsin, Wicklund had her own painful abortion at a young
age. It was not until she became a doctor that she realized
how many women shared her ordeal of an unwanted
pregnancy--and how hidden this common experience remains. This is the story of Susan's love for a profession that
means listening to women and helping them through one of the
most pivotal and controversial events in their lives. Hers
is also a calling that means sleeping on planes and
commuting between clinics in different states--and that
requires her to wear a bulletproof vest and to carry a .38
caliber revolver. This is also the story of the women whom
Susan serves, women whose options are increasingly limited. Through these intimate, complicated, and inspiring accounts,
Wicklund reveals the truth about the women's clinics that
anti-abortion activists portray as little more than
slaughterhouses for the unborn. Aswe enter the most fevered
political fight over abortion America has ever seen, this
raw and powerful memoir shows us what is at stake.
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