Lauren Rankin
Teoksen Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America tekijä
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Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America (2022) 42 kappaletta
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Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight… Tekijä: Lauren Rankin
Sometimes I forget about the clinic escorts who provide a CRITICAL service during people's times of need. While reading this, I was also reading Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh, which I recommend as a fiction follow-up. If you have an opportunity, check out Bodies on the Line for a more comprehensive look at the helpers defending people's right to healthcare.
Bodies on the Line by Lauren Rankin is both an eye-opening account of the fight to protect those doing perfectly legal acts from those terrorists who will resort to violence and deception to prevent it as well as a startling example of just how different the anti-abortion people are from anything even resembling pro-life (one of their preferred incorrect names for themselves).
This is not about the technicalities, legal or medical, surrounding the struggle for safe healthcare for women. When these things are brought up they serve to give context to the struggle to offer good healthcare. This is the story of the people who risked their bodies and even their lives to help women do what they are legally permitted to do, against those willing to intimidate, abuse, and even kill to stop them. This is far more personal than the larger histories of the struggles. It also centers on an often overlooked but every bit as essential group, the escorts and defenders who care about the actual living and breathing people who would otherwise be traumatized by all the faux-Christian groups spewing their venom.
If you care at all about actual people, actual women, then you will fluctuate between moments of joy and moments of sadness, and definitely moments of intense anger at the depths of hatred these people who use "love" as a weapon have toward women.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (lisätietoja)
This is not about the technicalities, legal or medical, surrounding the struggle for safe healthcare for women. When these things are brought up they serve to give context to the struggle to offer good healthcare. This is the story of the people who risked their bodies and even their lives to help women do what they are legally permitted to do, against those willing to intimidate, abuse, and even kill to stop them. This is far more personal than the larger histories of the struggles. It also centers on an often overlooked but every bit as essential group, the escorts and defenders who care about the actual living and breathing people who would otherwise be traumatized by all the faux-Christian groups spewing their venom.
If you care at all about actual people, actual women, then you will fluctuate between moments of joy and moments of sadness, and definitely moments of intense anger at the depths of hatred these people who use "love" as a weapon have toward women.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (lisätietoja)
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