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Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the mostpart men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whomhad an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when wehear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually thoseof the leaders of women’s and abortion rights organizations,women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians.We also hear quite frequently from spokeswomen for anti-abortiongroups. Rarely, however, do we hear the voices of ordinarywomen—women whose lives have been in some way touched byabortion. Their thoughts typically owe more to human circumstance thanto ideology, and without them, we run the risk of thinking and talkingabout the issue of abortion only in the abstract. Without Apology seeks to address this issue by gatheringthe voices of activists, feminists, and scholars as well as abortionproviders and clinic support staff alongside the stories of women whoseexperience with abortion is more personal. With the particular aim ofmoving beyond the polarizing rhetoric that has characterized the issueof abortion and reproductive justice for so long, WithoutApology is an engrossing and arresting account that will promoteboth reflection and discussion.

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Author:   Shannon Stettner
Publisher:   AU Press
Imprint:   AU Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781771991599

ISBN 10:   1771991593
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   30 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Without Apology / Shannon Stettner 1 Abortion in Canada: A History / Shannon Stettner   Part I Speaking from Experience 2 Giving Voice to the Unspeakable / Judith Mintz 3 T.A. / Clarissa Hurley 4 But I Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in My Heart / JessWoolford 5 Keep It Small / Evey Hornbeck 6 A Bad Law and a Bold Woman / Bernadette Wagner 7 I Don’t Blame the Abortion / Rebecca 8 [untitled] / Mackenzie   Part II Abortion Rights Activism 9 The Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics: Reproductive Freedomand the Campaign to Overturn the Federal Abortion Law / Carolyn Eganand Linda Gardner 10 The Radical Handmaids and Stephen Harper’s War on Women,Battleground 2012: Reopening the Abortion Debate / Aalya Ahmad /Radical Handmaids 11 Arts4choice.com / Martha Solomon 12 ""We Can Get There Faster If We All Move Together"": TheBirth of a Reproductive Justice Academic Activist / ColleenMacQuarrie 13 We Need to See Change: One Woman’s Motivations for PushingWaves on Prince Edward Island / Sadie Roberts 14 Pro-Choice Organizing on Canadian University Campuses: Unpackingthe Debate over Free Speech Versus Hate Speech / Kelly Holloway   Part III Challenging Opposing Positions 15 Blinded by the Right: My Past as an Anti-abortion Activist /Natalie Lochwin 16 One Woman’s Evolving View of Abortion / Tracey L.Anderson 17 Pro-Choice for God’s Sake / Shannon Pinkney 18 Abortion Commentary / Laura Wershler 19 Pro-abortion and Proud: Exploring Alternative ReproductiveJustice Labels / Laura Gillespie 20 Same as It Ever Was: Anti-Choice Extremism and the ""ThirdWay"" / Jane Cawthorne 21 Women over Ideology / Nick Van der Graaf   Part IV Practitioners and Clinic Support 22 Lessons from Life in Abortion Care / Peggy Cooke 23 ""Do you think I will go to hell for this?"" / RuthMiller 24 The Counsellor’s Voice / Erin Mullan 25 Empathy: Whose Choice Is OK? / Ellen Wiebe 26 Therapeutic Abortion / Sterling Haynes 27 ""I am proud to provide abortions"" / Evan James   Part V Sites of Struggle 28 The Choice Between Rights and Revolution / Karen Stote 29 Sex Selection Abortions: The Politics of Race in MulticulturalCanada / Bindy Kang 30 The Public Pregnancy: How the Fetal Debut and the Public HealthParadigm Affect Pregnancy Practice / Jen Rinaldi 31 A Harm-Reduction Approach to Abortion / Shannon Dea   The Unfinished Revolution / Shannon Stettner"

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Shannon Stettner is a post-doctoral visitor in theDepartment of Political Science at York University and teaches in theDepartment of Women’s Studies at the University of Waterloo. Sheis the co-founder of the Reproductive Activism and Abortion ResearchNetwork.

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