"Abortion 101, an accessible account of abortion practices and
ethical issues around the globe, for students, activists, and
policymakers"
Deeply touched by the tragedies of botched abortions that they
witnessed as medical students and young physicians in Chile in the
1940s and later around the world, the authors have attempted in
their professional lives and now in this book to establish a
framework for dialogue to replace the polarization that exists
today.
Doctors Faundes and Barzelatto use their decades of international
work to document the personal experiences of different classes of
women in different countries and those countries' policies and
practices. No other book provides such a comprehensive and reasoned
examination of the entire topic of abortion, from the medical to
the religious and ethical and from the psychological to the legal,
in plain language understandable by non-specialists.
The central thesis is that there are too many induced abortions in
the world today, that most are preventable and should be
prevented--a middle ground that both pro-life and pro-choice
advocates can accept. The first part of the book reviews why women
have abortions, as well as the magnitude and consequences. The
second part examines values. The third part discusses effective
interventions. The final part states conclusions about what can be
done to reach a necessary social consensus.
The Portuguese edition of this book was issued at the very end of
2004. The Spanish edition, launched in mid-2005, is already in a
second printing. The authors are making presentations at special
events sponsored by universities, professional associations, and
feminist networks in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay,
Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and the United States.
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