Abortion & Life

Name: Abortion & Life
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Jennifer Baumgardner

Sep 2008 · Akashic Books

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Baumgardner’s groundbreaking new book includes abortion testimonials by Ani DiFranco, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gloria Steinem, and others.

“In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture.” —The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing Baumgardner as one of Six Visionaries for the Twenty-First Century

In Abortion & Life, author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner reveals how the most controversial and stigmatized Supreme Court decision of our time cuts across eras, classes, and race. Stunning portraits by photographer Tara Todras-Whitehill of folk singer Ani DiFranco, authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Gloria Steinem, and others accompany their elucidating accounts of their own abortion experiences.

In this bold new work, Baumgardner explores some of the thorniest issues around terminating a pregnancy, including the ones that the pro-choice establishment has been the least sensitive or effective in confronting.

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A Google user

November 13, 2009

Personal accounts are accompanied by portraits taken by photographer Tara Todras-Whitehill, including pictures of women as famous as Ani DiFranco and Gloria Steinem, wearing the “I had an Abortion” t-shirt. This volume is not about yelling in the streets or holding picket signs; it is not about being confrontational and aggressive toward anti-choice “activists.” It is about presenting the facts of what women went through and showing how necessary abortion is in an imperfect world. As long as we are yelling at each other and threatening each other, rather than listening and talking calmly, we can’t reach an understanding. Abortion & Life has a buddha-like, gentle approach to the subject of abortion, not using the “us and them” mentality that is so common but rather showing why abortion is important, in hopes that abortion’s enemies will make some attempt at tolerance.

About the author

JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER is the publisher of Dottir, an independent feminist press. She is coauthor of Manifesta and Grassroots, two best-selling contemporary feminist classics, as well as We Do!: American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality; and author of Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, Abortion & Life, and F’em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls. She has contributed essays and commentary to the Nation, the New York Times, Harper’s, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Baumgardner has won numerous awards for her activism; her work is widely taught in schools across the country and she has given keynote addresses at more than 250 colleges and universities in the last decade. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Jennifer lives in New York.

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