Abortion & Life

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Reveals how the most controversial and stigmatised decision in the modern world cuts across eras, classes and race. Photographs of women, who include Ani DiFranco, Barbara Ehrenreich and Gloria Steinhem, illustrate the moving and powerful personal testimonies found within the pages.

Author Bio

Jennifer Baumgardner is the co-author (with Amy Richards) of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (2000), as well as Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism (2005; both Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Her most recent book is Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics (FSG, 2007). She writes regularly for women's magazines like Glamour, Elle, Allure, Redbook, Babble.