Birth or Abortion: Private Struggles in a Political World

by Kate Maloy and Maggie Jones Patterson

Many Americans who believe that women should be able to choose when and whether to bear a child are also deeply disturbed by the one-and-one-half million abortions performed each year in this country. They regard these concerns as irreconcilable, because the topic of abortion, until now, has been framed as a black-or-white conflict between the rights of the mother and those of the fetus. The very idea of compromise or common cause draws scorn among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738205885
• ISBN13: 9780738205885
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"