The War on Choice The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back

by Gloria Feldt

Ebook, 2004

Status

Available

Publication

New York : Westminster : Bantam [Imprint] Random House Publishing Group Random House, Incorporated [Distributor] April 2004

Description

Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back the clock on women's rights. With the White House acting in anti-choice lockstep with the majorities in both House and Senate, religious extremists are now in key decision-making posts, our federal judiciary is filled with recent appointees whose values are drastically out of step with the pro-choice sentiments of the majority of the American people, abstinence-only sex education is now the rule, ideology has trumped science in domestic and global health policy, and the Supreme Court balance in favor of reproductive freedoms is perilously close to toppling. But while many of the individual facts are known, no one until now has connected all the dots and drawn the Big Picture that shows exactly how radical and how successful this quiet revolution has been. Judge by judge, law by law, and appointee by appointee, The War on Choice speaks the truth about what is happening, and also tells the stories of some of the women whose lives have been affected by these court decisions and federal policies. A keen analysis of current events, combined with a hands-on plan of action for those who want to raise their voices in protest, this book will be riveting reading. And there is no one better equipped to write about the insidious, step-by step chipping away of rights, or about what we can do to fight back, than Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Her thirty years of work with the organization combined with her personal experience - as a woman who came out of the same West Texas political landscape as did George W. Bush but faced a very different economic and social reality as the mother of three children by the age of 20 make her the ideal spokeswoman for those who are alarmed by the current political climate.? This book will be a wake-up call, describing in jaw-dropping detail the story of what the anti-choice movement is doing to the rights to birth control, abortion and privacy.?… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Angelic55blonde
I highly, HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who calls themselves pro-choice. This is a great book that opens the readers eyes to the fact that Roe v Wade has a definite reality of being overturned in the near future and if this generation of prochoice men and women don't stand up and do
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something, it's going to be gone and we will be back to the coathanger option or going over the border to do backally abortions. I also recommend this book to people who don't know about the issue. Yes, it is a biased book written from the prochoice view, but it does give the prochoice stance and beliefs so at least the reader can find out one side to the story and then they can go pick up an obviously prolife book. Again, this is a great book!
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Original publication date

2004-05

ISBN

9780553382921

Local notes

reproduction/ abortion

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