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020 $a1573920452 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aPoppema, Suzanne T.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96007558
245 10 $aWhy I am an abortion doctor /$cSuzanne P. Poppema with Mike Henderson.
260 $aAmherst, NY :$bPrometheus Books,$c1996.
263 $a9603
300 $a266 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
500 $aErrata slip inserted.
520 $aSince the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, nearly thirty million legal abortions have been performed in the United States. Every year hundreds of thousands of women choose to have abortions. Yet a veil of secrecy is drawn across abortion sites, disturbed only by protest demonstrations and violence outside clinics.
520 8 $aFor years the antichoice movement has loudly condemned the abortion procedure. Opponents use such words as "baby-killing," "murder," and "blood-dripping abortionists" to describe what goes on in an abortion clinic - highly charged words that are intended to frighten women who are facing one of the most important decisions of their lives. What does - and does not - go on inside an abortion clinic? Why do women seek this procedure? Why would a physician specialize in this service?
520 8 $aWhy I Am An Abortion Doctor provides a unique, firsthand look at the life and work of a leading abortion provider. With compassion and courage Dr. Suzanne T. Poppema shares the intimate details of her private and professional struggle - including a view from the abortion clinic operating room as well as a recollection of her own fifth-month abortion - to promote better understanding of the reality of abortion and the violent forces that threaten a woman's right to choose.
520 8 $aDr. Poppema's journey has led her from a Catholic upbringing in rural New Hampshire to professional training at Harvard Medical School, where she made a critical career decision to forgo the fame and fortune awaiting those who enter lucrative medical specialties in favor of becoming a family physician. She has traveled to some of the poorest places on earth, where she observed the expendability of human life and the subjugation of women.
520 8 $aDr. Poppema's work has brought her a world-wide reputation as an authority on abortion. She served as a member of an international panel in Paris to discuss the French abortion pill, RU 486. Her own clinic was chosen as one of the few U.S. test sites for this controversial drug.
520 8 $aWhy I Am An Abortion Doctor is a compelling, informative book for readers on both sides of the controversy. It is a groud-breaking work that puts a human face on abortion and tells precisely what the procedure involves, who it helps, and why women seek to terminate their pregnancies.
650 0 $aAbortion services.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000211
650 0 $aAbortion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000196
700 1 $aHenderson, Mike.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82268178
852 00 $bswx$hRG734$i.P65 1996
852 00 $bbar$hRG734$i.P65 1996