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Title: Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic by Wendy Simonds ISBN: 0-8135-2245-5 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible
Comment: This book is an incredible resource for my work in a feminist clinic. Can we delete the crazy anti-choice opinion of Brad Stetson?

Rating: 5
Summary: OUR BODIES OUR CHOICES
Comment: I must admit that I write this review mainly in response to the one other review that this book has recieved. I must first state that I find his comment on the author's "energetic enthusiasm to present uncloaked her feminist vision of procreative liberty..." to reveal HIS perverse evaluation of women that leaves ME shocked and disturbed. Is it not more perverse for women to cloak and hide abortions, to have them done in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, putting their life on the line to avoid the shame and stigma men like the other reviewer bring? Not only does he misunderstand the basic concept behind abortions, but he gravely misunderstands abortions in general. All his talk of mutilated fetuses is ridiculous. 88% of abortions are performed before the second trimester, when the fetus is no bigger than about two inches long. That is hardly the image he conjures up, is it? It is shocking in this day and age that women are still not afforded the responsibility of determining what happens to their own bodies. It is our most basic, simple, and profound human right, and men like the other reviewer would deny us that right. The other important thing is to remember that every child born should be a wanted child; until that is possible in the case of every pregnancy (which will never happen)we must keep abortion safe and legal. So in conclusion, do not allow your opinion of this book to be tainted by misinformed opinions.

Rating: 1
Summary: The Horror, The Horror
Comment: This book provides a valuable--and shocking--window on abortion practice and academic feminist reasoning. It should take its place alongside Magda Denes' In Necessity and Sorrow as a leading exhibit of the macabre, crimson world of American abortion. That was surely not its writer's intention, but the combination of her amoral framework and energetic enthusiasm to present uncloaked her feminist vision of procreative liberty reveals a perverse valuation of human life that will shock and deeply disturb. An ocean of blood runs through the abortion center Simonds approvingly studied. You don't know anything about what abortion actually, truly, is until you've read Simonds' interviewees descriptions of bloodied, dismembered pre-born human beings, and the profound self-delusion of everyone who participates in this slaughter of the innocents.