A Woman's Right to Know
- ISBN-10
- 0989618900
- ISBN-13
- 9780989618908
- Category
- Abortion
- Pages
- 174
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-28
- Author
- Carol Roye
Description
When women's health wasn't a political issue... The surprising history every woman deserves to know. Women's health has long been seen as a divisive social issue. But behind inflammatory news headlines is an untold story that every man and woman is entitled to know. This factual and eye-opening story recounts how women's health devolved from being a medical issue, supported even by religious groups, to a divisive political debate. Exposing a chain of historic events, author Carol Roye reveals how only recently groups such as the Religious Right organized against abortion rights, using it as an influential political tool. Roye, an academic, longtime nurse practitioner and mother of six, also dispels many of the inaccurate, political arguments surrounding abortion and instead shines a light on the real concern at hand - public health. A Woman's Right to Know goes beyond the old argument of moral imperative vs. women's rights. Instead, it presents a third point of view in which people on either side of the issue have aligned in support of the true moral imperative - women's and children's health. Roye's book points us towards a solution and details the unlikely alliances and religious coalitions that are already working together to protect women's health, including access to contraception and abortion. This book supports neither pro-life nor pro-choice sentiments. Instead, it effectively affirms why we must move beyond the tired political debate and find common ground in order to protect the lives of women and children. A Woman's Right to Know is a stirring must-read for anyone concerned with women's rights, as well as those who want to be better informed about this critical public health issue.
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- 2023-12-12
- 439 pages
- Paperback
- MIT Press
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