Life's work : from the trenches, a moral argument for choice / Dr. Willie Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Willie (Willie J.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parker, Willie (Willie J.).

Parker, Willie.

Physicians--United States--Biography.

Physicians.

Reproductive rights.

United States.

Abortion--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Abortion.

Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.

Pro-choice movement--United States.

Pro-choice movement.

Women's rights--United States.

Women's rights.

Reproductive rights--United States.

Abortion, Induced.

Reproductive Rights.

Women's Rights.

Religion and Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Physicians.

Abortion, Induced.

Reproductive Rights.

Women's Rights.

Religion and Medicine.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Women's rights--United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

217 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Subtitle on cover: Moral argument for choice

From the trenches, a moral argument for choice

Place of Publication:

New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2017.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"An abortion provider and Christian reproductive justice advocate draws from his personal journey and professional scientific training as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe, unequivocally, that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do. Dr. Willie Parker grew up in the Deep South, lived in a Christian household, and converted to an even more fundamentalist form of Christianity as a young man. But upon reading an interpretation of the Good Samaritan in a sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he realized that in order to be a true Christian, he must show compassion for all women regardless of their needs. In 2009, he stopped practicing obstetrics to focus on providing safe abortions for the women who need help the most--often women in poverty and women in the South, the hotbed of the pro-choice debate. He soon thereafter traded in his private practice and his penthouse apartment in Hawaii for the life of an itinerant abortion provider, moving between Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Dr. Willie Parker tells a deeply personal and thought-provoking narrative, one that illuminates the complex societal, political, religious, and personal realities of abortion in the United States from the unique perspective of someone who performs them and defends the right to do so every day. He also looks at how a new wave of anti-abortion activism, aimed at making incremental changes in laws and regulations state by state, is chipping away at the rights of women to control their own lives. In revealing his daily battle against mandatory waiting periods, bogus rules, and pseudoscience, Dr. Parker uncovers the growing number of strings attached to a woman's right to choose and makes a powerful Christian case for championing reproductive rights. "With phrases like 'pro-life' and 'culture of life,'" he writes, "the antis seized the moral high ground nearly forty years ago, and they retain it to this day, because abortion-rights activists ... have never mounted a significant religious or moral counterargument." Until now."--Jacket.

Contents:

Prologue: The women

Conversion

Grace of God

"That girl"

Dreams

Putting her first

Practicing abortion

Slings and arrows

Preaching truth

Black genocide and the white majority

My sisters' keeper

Homecoming

Ethical abortion care

A new theology of abortion.

ISBN:

9781501151125

1501151126

OCLC:

978298617