Generation Roe
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781609804589
Description: It is time, forty years after Roe v. Wade, to finally demystify abortion. One-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are forty-five, and most will already be mothers when they do so. Yet the topic remains taboo. With Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-choice Movement, women's health advocate and writer Sarah Erdreich, identified as a leading pro-choice activist by Newsweek, offers an antidote to the usual abortion debate. Involving issues of autonomy, privacy, and sexuality, the abortion debate remains ground zero for the culture wars in America. Yet there is more common ground than meets the eye, when so many American women of all political stripes have already chosen to have abortions and most want that choice protected. Generation Roe covers "abortion-recovery counseling," "crisis pregnancy centers," and the infamous anti-choice "black children are an endangered species" billboards; describes health care providers whose lives are threatened in this stigmatized field; outlines the outrageous legislative battles that have popped up all over the country; and takes to task pro-choice activists for allowing the terms of the debate to be controlled by anti-choice rhetoric (such as the term "pro-life"). Erdreich returns the conversation to its rightful place, asserting abortion, unabashedly, as a moral and fundamental human right.--Back Cover.