lb_lee | Three abortion books

Rogan threw himself at the abortion shelf in the library last month, and here were the three books he thought best:

The Turnaway Study, by Dana Greene Foster, PhD. Foster did a huge study comparing women who were just under the gestational limit at abortion clinics and obtained one, and those who were just over gestational limits and turned away. Thanks to the arbitrary stupidity of abortion rules, this gave them a pretty big pool of very similar women to compare, so they could statistically see how having an abortion (or being unable to get one) affected the woman, her life, her existing children, and her relationships, and also to see how various government restrictions on abortion panned out. Busts a lot of myths, full of important data. If you can only read one, pick this one.
You're the Only One I've Told, by Dr. Meera Shah. Stories from a Gujarati-American abortion doctor, about herself but mostly the stories of people she knows who've had an abortion. Why people have abortions, what their experiences are like, that kind of thing.
Comics for Choice, edited by Whit Taylor and Hazel Newlevant. (Link goes to $25 paper copies and pay-what-you-want ebook copies supporting the National Network of Abortion Funds.) We know Whit Taylor and she's been doing great work in comics for years. An anthology of short pro-choice comics, and the only book we were able to find that discussed trans people and abortion with more than a, "Hey, they exist, we guess!"

*takes notes*

I also chose them because despite the material, reading them didn't make me feel like my emotions were being jerked around or manipulated.

These all look pretty cool! By the way, Comics for Choice appears to be $25 for the paper copy, not $15.

D'oh! My mistake, thanks for the correction! That is a much more sensible price; it is a girthy book!

Sneak