Description: Title: Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice Author: Parker, Willie Publisher: 37 Ink Binding: Paperback Pages: 240 Dimensions: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d Product Weight: 0.4 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781501151132 In this "vivid and companionable memoir of a remarkable life" (The New Yorker), an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider reveals his personal and professional journeys in an effort to seize the moral high ground on the question of choice and reproductive justice. Dr. Willie Parker grew up in the Deep South, lived in a Christian household, and converted to an even more fundamentalist form of Christianity as a young man. But upon reading an interpretation of the Good Samaritan in a sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he realized that in order to be a true Christian, he must show compassion for all people at all times. In 2009, he stopped practicing obstetrics to focus entirely on providing safe abortions for women who need help the most--often women in poverty and women of color--in the hotbed of the pro-choice debate: the South. He thereafter traded in his private practice and his penthouse apartment in Hawaii for the life of an itinerant abortion provider, becoming one of the few doctors to provide such services in Mississippi and Alabama. In Life's Work, Dr. Willie Parker tells a deeply personal and thought-provoking narrative that illuminates the complex societal, political, religious, and personal realities of abortion in the United States from the unique perspective of someone who performs them and defends the right to do so every day. In revealing his daily battle against mandatory waiting periods and bogus rules, Dr. Parker makes a powerful Christian case for championing reproductive rights. "At a moment when reproductive health and rights are under attack...Dr. Parker's book is a beacon of hope and a call to action" (Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood). Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Edition: 37
Book Title: Life's Work : a Moral Argument for Choice
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Atria Books
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Abortion & Birth Control, Personal Memoirs, General, Medical
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 9 Oz
Author: Willie Parker
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
