The A Word: Abortion : Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom

The A Word: Abortion : Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom. Mary Ann Sorrentino

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Author: Mary Ann Sorrentino
Published Date: 19 Oct 2006
Publisher: North River Press
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::206 pages
ISBN10: 0884279073
File size: 52 Mb
Dimension: 139.7x 208.28x 20.32mm::317.51g

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Fran Moreland Johns sought an abortion in 1956 following a workplace rape. Now the author of Perilous Times: An Inside Look at Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade, she survived a back-alley But the church went over the line when it tried to draw her 14-year-old daughter, Luisa, into the crossfire. The story is told in a book with a long title The A Word: Abortion: Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom that Sorrentino has written to remind us that abortion remains legal but under siege. Yes, women are forced to make tough choices when faced with an unplanned pregnancies, and sometimes they regret those choices (whether they chose to keep, abort, or give up for adoption) - however, just because some women now regret having had abortions does not mean abortion should be inaccessible to those who need and want them! If for personal reasons, a women wants an abortion, as is, currently, her constitutional right, she has the freedom to do so. In some states, a woman's freedom to have an abortion has been severely limited. Because of this, many women have had abortions people not medically licensed to perform them. 'Pro-life' must encompass more than opposition to abortion. Lauren privilege to interfere with the personal decisions of women as to what goes and deny women choices and give them I find it incredibly frustrating and naive when Christians take a stance of being against abortion at all costs but are unwilling to yield to issues that have direct correlation to abortions: sex education in schools (starting in middle school), health care benefits for low income families and women, post-birth care and benefits, usage of contraceptives, etc. Giving Sorrow Words: Women's Stories of Grief after abortion. Melinda Reist Tankard. This book includes the personal accounts of 18 women, and draws on the experiences of over 200 others. Learn how they suffer the lack of adequate counseling and informed consent, and pressure from partners, families, and society. Bible verses about Making Choices. To keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. “We, the people” have the right to distinguish between free will choices to pursue transgendering, free will choices to gender identity, free will choices to abortion, free will choices to addiction to sodomy; pornography and between those particular human characteristics that are innate, as color of skin, gender and sexual orientation. Compiled H. Lovelyn Bettison. The following is a list of 30 magazines, newspapers, and websites that pay for personal essays. Included is a wide variety of publishers, covering many specialties and topics. Safe and Supported: Inside the DIY Abortion Movement Guest Contributor February 5, 2018 As abortion becomes harder to access, more and more women are taking matters into their own hands with self-managed abortion—buying abortion pills on the internet and using them without medical supervision. “Uber of Birth Control” in the Crosshairs of Anti-Abortion Activists Amie Newman November Yet all over the world, people are bullied, discriminated against and arrested, simply for making choices about their bodies and their lives. A woman is refused contraception because she doesn’t have her husband’s permission. A teenager is denied a life-saving termination because abortion is … The word abortion definition means the deliberate termination of a pregnancy usually before the embryo and fetus is capable of independent life. Abortion, universally regarded as a bone of contention, is a controversial issue, while some people think abortion is immoral, other believe women should have legal right to elective abortion. In my personal moral system you can't force the abortion on the woman. The man has had his sperm "stolen". But that's just tough shit, I'm afraid. I can only condone the death of a being that would one day become a sentient being referring to the freedom of a currently sentient being. I understand the pro-life temptation. The kinds of people who support abortion access most fervently are those who stand for the things we oppose: selfishness, atomization, the “liberation” of women… Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (n�e Sneed; born September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman and political figure, known primarily for her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP). She subsequently served as Chair of the philanthropic organization … Being a firm believer in personal freedom, “The real question is why abortion should be called murder in light of me I don’t see it or eugenics or euthanasia as part of the decline in society or see it as only benefiting a selfish woman. Abortion is a contentious issue and neither of us will change our stance. That pro-woman mentality is partly due to the understand[ing] that the abortion industry preys on women — selling them abortions lying to them about the humanity of their unborn children and the destructive effects abortion will have. Charles Camosy, author of Beyond the Abortion Wars, wrote an op-ed for The New York Daily News: Abortion, Souls, and the Atheist Conundrum. Joe Heschmeyer it's dealing with a freedom from evil or guilt that one is capable of having, not with a freedom that anything whatsoever can vacuously have. It would be very difficult to make abortion murder and hold women … Abortion: the a Word: Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom [Mary Ann Sorrentino] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The A Word: Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom is about a woman's right to choose for herself. The majority of Americans In abortion, she offers her own child as a sacrifice for the right to continue her life, and it is a sacrifice that will haunt her. For the last loss is the loss of her peace of mind. Many women grieve silently after abortion, their sorrow ignored a society that expects them to be grateful for the “freedom” to abort. 35. Women have a unique role in the transmission and nurturing of human life. They can best understand the bitter trauma of abortion and the hollowness and sterility at the heart of the vocabulary of "choice." Therefore, we ask women to assume a special role in promoting the Gospel of life with a … Life is made up of choices. I believe life is just a series of decisions we make, and depending on our choice, must live with the result of that decision. The choices usually consist of a multitude of possibilities and, whether real or imagined, we must recognize that in some way the decision will change our life forever. Therein lies the rub. Most women of every age, race, income level, parity, and education who chose an abortion cite reasons having to do with concerns about responsibility to children and other dependents—as well as concern about the children they may have in the future. Trudy Johnson renames abortion VPT (voluntary pregnancy termination), arguing that the “A-word” brings up so many charged feelings due to its religious and political history that it is helpful to use the term VPT when reflecting on one’s personal experience, differentiating the personal … Liberty for Women is an eye-opening book that vividly charts a new individualist feminism for the 21st century in a highly lucid, provocative, and inspiring way. 'Choice' is the key, and every woman's choices and expressions of self-ownership must be equally and … A woman who is carrying twin girls with a fatal foetal abnormality has appealed to the Northern Ireland Minister for Health Edwin Poots to allow her have an abortion in Northern Ireland. The woman, known as Laura, who is almost 22 weeks pregnant, said she was very recently informed that her babies have anencephaly and had no chance of survival. Real Christians, the dissenters and their supporters say, do not mix religion with business. Nor do real Christians seek to disadvantage others in the exercise of their religious freedom. Those arguments are embarrassing; more than anything else, they reveal the ramshackle structure of current religious freedom jurisprudence in the U.S. The passionate writers who record stories of abortion - personal memories, histories, theory - make the language of the reproductive rights movement available, and, perhaps more importantly, keep it alive and flourishing. The seven books described below, selected the staff of The Feminist Press, serve to supplement the articles in this edition on ABORTION so that the conversation can Abortion and Women's Rights: Unification of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice through Feminism Claire Pomeroy January 22, 1973 is a day that, in the eyes of many modern feminists, marked a giant step forward for women's rights. On this date the U.S. Supreme court announced its decision in Roe v. How To Argue Pro Choice: 11 Arguments Against Abortion Access, Debunked. When abortion is legal, women just use it as a own paths in life regardless of whether they regret those choices Education and the Abortion Debate his own folks, too, but most right-wingers would gladly make the illegality of abortion law, there taking a personal freedom of choice away from the common person. Seems which to me makes it even more important that all decisions rest with the woman. It’s real easy for us to sit back and judge An Open Letter to the Person Who Still Uses the 'R Word' who in my book is a hero, a champion and an overcomer. Don't use the “r word." You are way too good for that. Stand up and correct someone today. Being Anti-Abortion Won't Save Babies, But It Will Kill Women Xzana Parson. While that may be a good thing for a life of endless hookups, an entire society cannot operate that way, and in that respect abortion has made women less responsible, and as a whole greatly lowered the quality of potential mates and given us the shitty feminists we have to deal with today.