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Health & Fitness. Reference. Young Adult Nonfiction. HTML:�??"Required reading for teens of every gender."—Booklist, starred review Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences. Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn't make it any less common; it just makes it dangerous. Around the world, tens of thousands of women die from unsafe abortions every year. People who support abortion rights have been fighting hard to create a world in which the right to access safe and legal abortion services is guaranteed. The opposition to this has been intense and sometimes violent, and victories have been hard won. The long fight for abortion rights is being picked up by a new generation of courageous, creative and passionate activists. This book is about the history, and the future, of that fig… (more)
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Another strength is the myth-busting and educational value in the book on issues related to health and sex education.
I also appreciated the discussion of the social context which is often not supportive of single mothers, or even mothers generally. The author puts the abortion issue in a broad context of society's attitudes towards women, racial minorities and child-friendly public policy.
Very well done -- this is a book that will start the kind of conversations we need to have.
Ms. Stevenson wrote this book for
Some strengths of this book include: (1) the use of numerous illustrations including some in comic strip style (graphic) format; (2) the telling of personal stories by people involved in the abortion struggle; (3) the inclusion of stories about the involvement of young people worldwide, and (4) highlighting terms which might be unfamiliar to teenagers unfamiliar with reproductive education and giving the definitions in the glossary at the end of the book.
Weaknesses include: fragmentation of information by trying to cover the worldwide situation with very brief discussions of what is happening in selected countries, and not enough telling of personal stories, especially of young people who have had abortions.
The sections on the situation in the United States and Canada are much more complete than for the other countries.
There’s a whole lot that I love about this book. It’s a well-researched, sensitively discussed book about an important (and timely) topic. The content is
I received a free ebook from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
I do want to make it clear that this is written in a way that targets teenagers, but even adults can learn from it. As a result, I think this would be a good book for schools