This Common Secret

This Common Secret My Journey as an Abortion Doctor

1st Edition

Hardback (31 Dec 2007)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. Growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin, Wicklund had her own painful abortion at a young age. It was not until she became a doctor that she realized how many women shared her ordeal of an unwanted pregnancy—and how hidden this common experience remains.

This is the story of Susan's love for a profession that means listening to women and helping them through one of the most pivotal and controversial events in their lives. Hers is also a calling that means sleeping on planes and commuting between clinics in different states—and that requires her to wear a bulletproof vest and to carry a .38 caliber revolver. This is also the story of the women whom Susan serves, women whose options are increasingly limited.

Through these intimate, complicated, and inspiring accounts, Wicklund reveals the truth about the women's clinics that anti-abortion activists portray as little more than slaughterhouses for the unborn. As we enter the most fevered political fight over abortion America has ever seen, this raw and powerful memoir shows us what is at stake.

Book information

ISBN: 9781586484804
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Imprint: PublicAffairs
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 610.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 422g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 23mm