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Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women's Words

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This book is a wonderful, touching and powerful look at what women go through during the abortion process from making a choice, to support (or lack therof) from friends and family and coworkers, and the actual proceedure and aftercare of the woman during abortion. I'd reccomend this book if you are looking for the woman's point of view on the issue.

I found this book to be a great resource for a woman who has gone through abortion. It is true to it's title and uses women's stories as a way to help women deal with all the feelings of PAS. Even if you feel that noone on earth could feel like you do, read this book and I'm sure that there is at least one woman that went through what you are going through. Talks about women that have dealt with one and multiple abortions. It made me feel that somewhere a woman that had an abortion had felt the way I feel and that I wasn't alone or weird.

If you want to explore your own abortion or find out more about womens' abortion experiences, you should buy "Experiencing Abortion."  The political fight over a woman's right to have an abortion rarely speaks to the actual experience women have when confronted with an unplanned pregnancy.  In "Experiencing Abortion," Eve Kushner finally makes visible the women who decide abortion is their only choice. 

Unlike many abortion books, "Experiencing Abortion" is not just story after story of women who have had abortions.  Rather, it is organized in an almost therapy-like way.  Kushner pulls out the many different themes behind abortions from emotions women feel after an abortion to accepting their decision, from looking at the relationships the women were in during the abortion to finally finding peace with the decision.  This is a good book for anyone who has used denial as a main way of coping with difficult experiences.  This format can help one to move forward with her own healing.  With each theme, the reader can incorporate her own feelings one at a time together with other women's perspectives.  Reading this book was a bit like being in group therapy only much less vulnerable and I believe "Experiencing Abortion" helped get me into therapy, which has changed my life in many important ways. 

If you too want to finally start to deal with your own abortion, or you want to help other do so, you should buy this book.

Speaking from a personal experience I can not begin to describe what an extremely good find this book has been. It's true that while perhaps it would help more to be able to talk openly with other women to share in the aftermath and recovery, this book has been the next best thing. I would highly recommend this to anyone who may be attempting to integrate this experience into their sense of self - it has been invaluable to me.

This is an important book. Eve Kushner does an excellent job of weaving together the stories of an incredibly diverse group of women. You will surely encounter a voice that you can relate to somehere in the pages. She covers so many aspects of abortion that simply don't get discussed. If you or someone you know is going to or has experienced an abortion, this is a good starting point for them.

This book lets women who have experienced abortion speak for themselves! Unlike so many authors covering abortion (and women's issues, in general), this author does not shepherd her analytical agenda through the narrative and press women's stories into shapes that fit. The author groups these varied experiences in a manner that elucidates and suggests larger significance but does not contrain the voices' originality.

I found the book riveting. The aloneness of each subject made me want to call and offer words of encouragement. I plan to send this on to a friend who has recently experienced the mental pain even though she had family support. An important book for young and old alike. I'd like to see men read it.

As someone who has always empathized with women who have had abortions, I got so much insight from reading this book. Eve Kushner makes a delicate subject readable as well as authentic. Her interviews with scores of women who have experienced abortions have greatly widened my understanding of it. There is no preaching one way or the other on the topic. This book is for everyone who wants to know more about abortion.

ALTHOUGH I FOUND A FEW SENTANCES THAT WERE ORIGINAL AND CONFIRMING, THIS BOOK IS PROBABLY WINNING 5 STARS FOR JUST THE TOPIC ALONE. NO WHERE IS THERE A CHANCE FOR WOMEN TO TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE BUT THIS BOOK IS SO CLINICAL - YES, ORGANIZED - BUT COLD, SOMEHOW. I HATED THE JUMPING AROUND OF AGES AND DATES AND AGES OF HOW OLD THE GIRLS WERE AT THE TIME; I STARTED IN THE MIDDLE THEN SKIMMED IT TILL THE END. A GREAT BOOK FOR A CLASS, HOMEWORK OR REFERENCE BUT DID NOTHING FOR ME.