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Abortion Confidential by [Norma Goldberger]

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Abortion Confidential is one woman's experience of delivering abortion and birth control services in an Ohio community bent on preventing such services. Like the canary in a coal mine, abortion rights in America are a focus of U.S. women's status in society as it fluctuates between that of chattel to full equality. The book can be read as a case study of social change, both from a societal perspective and from an individual woman’s perspective. It is a study of anti-women discrimination and prejudicial behavior from not only a societal but also from a personal perspective. It also opens an insider's view of the character and upbringing that motivated the author's role in advancing social change and the motivation and tactics used by those who seem to prefer a mediaeval view of society. The daily struggle of dealing with employees, medical service providers, patients and abortion opponents who all seem to revel in making life difficult punctuates a story that includes actions on the national stage that defined abortion rights through the 1980s.
This book personalizes the delivery of abortion services prior to the legalization of abortion, during its legalization, and then through all the attempts to thwart such services legally and illegally over a span of more than 20 years. It predicts the diminishing ability to provide legal abortions as the pendulum of change swings backwards all in the propagandistic terms of "preserving" the health of the woman. It is a truth that whatever happens to one person happens to many others in a society. While at least 20% of women have had abortions, few are willing to become a protective political force for other women because, as this book demonstrates, women think their reproductive choices are unique and based on different criteria than those made by their sisters.

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November 26, 2014
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The Virgin Green

Too bad, really...

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2015

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Admittedly, I've only read a small portion of this book, but I'm honestly not sure if I'll finish it. First off, the Kindle formatting is off - I keep finding the words "Abortion Confidential" randomly scattered throughout the pages, rather than neatly at the top (where I suppose they were meant to be). There are page breaks and errors here and there.

However, the writing is, unfortunately, worse. It's dull and rambling, a somewhat repetitive declaration of the author and her history of being smart when everyone else is stupid, and being progressive when everyone else is backward. Look, I'm a diehard feminist. I can bring myself to tears thinking of what it must've been like before women had the still-limited hard-won freedoms they have now. I can cry thinking about how far we still have to go, in frustration and anger. But the author's tone was more self-aggrandizing than sympathetic to the struggles all women endured, a boasting of her intelligence, independent mind and excellent perception in a world of those unable and unwilling to understand her genius. It's ironic, considering how badly the book is written, with numerous grammatical errors and unprofessional tone.

I've always found this subject fascinating - I highly recommend Susan Wicklund's "Our Common Secret" - and was really hoping for a good read. However, it doesn't look like it's going to end up that way. If I can manage the rest of this book and it suprises me, I'll revise my review, but as of right now I don't see any changes on the way.

Katherine E Murray

Always stand up for your right to choose.

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2015

I was inspired to share my thoughts on adoption with Norma after reading her memoir Abortion Confidential Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner.
As the Mother of two adopted children and one biological I wanted to share my personal feelings on adoption as that was the only part in the book that I felt need an additional point of view. I highly recommend reading her memoir. It is well written and very enlightening. Norma is a very brave woman and she is totally committed to a woman's right to choose. Norma put herself and her family at risk so that women were able to have safe abortions in a caring environment. Norma is a voice for all women. No matter how you feel about abortion you should read this memoir so that when you discuss abortion you can do it from a well informed position. Knowledge is power and woman need to be empowered.
It is our body and what we do with it should always be our choice.

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A Reality Check on Women's Reproductive Rights

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2015

"This book is definitely worth reading and should probably be on the "must-read" list of every women's study course. It is a wild and rough view of the realities of owning and running a legal abortion clinic for over twenty years. This one happened to be in Akron, Ohio, but could have been anywhere. The opposing beliefs that were so strongly held, the emotional and frequently brutal stories of the women who came for abortions, the gut-wrenching legal battles, and the daily stresses and persecutions of the owners, combine to make this a dizzying, dismaying but compelling roller coaster ride through the history of women's reproductive rights and one woman who fought so hard for them."

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Tragic isn't it.. how some fight so hard ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2015

Tragic isn't it ..how some fight so hard to have the legal right to " eat their young " so to speak ..

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