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Review: Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980 by Rebecca M. Kluchin

September 14, 2011

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While I was working on Rebecca M. Kluchin’s book, Fit To Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980, I received a letter from a penpal in which she described the United States as a “pro-choice country” and that she was glad to live in such a country. This made me stop and…

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Review: The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler

August 8, 2011

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Format: Paperback Published on: June 26th 2007 (first published 2006) Published by: Penguin Pages: 368 ISBN: 0143038974 Goodreads Imagine being a teenage girl living a middle class existence in the United States in the 1950s and 60s. Imagine having zero sex education, but entering a stage in your life where you’re becoming sexual. Imagine…

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Review: This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund

June 15, 2011

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Format: Paperback Published on: December 29th 2008 Published by: PublicAffairs Pages: 288 ISBN: 1586486470 Goodreads I knew or rather heard stories of some of the realities abortion providers face: shootings, arson, attacks on clinics. Because the murder of Dr. George Tiller had not yet happened when I read Susan Wicklund’s memoir, This Common Secret:…

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