With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose
by By Michelman, Kate
Category: Political Science , Political Process , Political Advocacy

Catalyzed by a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion, which required the consent of the husband who left her and the approval of a hospital panel made up entirely of men, Kate Michelman - seasoned lobbyist, skilled political strategist, and inspiration to millions of women across the country - has since devoted her life to protecting the rights of women and children. As president of NARAL Pro-Choice America from 1985 to 2004, Michelman catapulted the organization to prominence as the nation's premier reproductive rights group, moving the question "Who decides?" to the mainstream, transforming the political debate, and defining a woman's freedom to choose as a fundamental American liberty.Now, in a book that is at once personally compelling and urgently relevant, Michelman offers a wake-up call to American women to defend their freedom in what is undoubtedly its hour of greatest danger: With the appointment of just one or two Supreme Court justices hostile to Roe v. Wade and the right to choose, Roe's protections may very well be lost, forcing women to live at the whim of politicians and affording them fewer reproductive rights than their mothers had thirty years ago.Politically impassioned, thought-provoking, and timely, With Liberty and Justice for All is not just a book about choice, but a book about freedom. It is a book about bringing children into a world under the best possible conditions, and about a woman's right to assume her equal place in American society.