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You're the only one I've told : the stories behind abortion / Meera Shah.
TITLE:
You're the only one I've told : the stories behind abortion / Meera Shah.
Alternate Title:
You are the only one I have told
Publication Date:
2020
Publication Information:
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press,
Physical Description:
298 p.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.
Summary:
For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few years, Shah decided it was time to be direct. I'm an abortion provider, she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new. One by one, people would confide at barbecues, at jury duty, in the middle of the greeting card aisle at Target that in fact they'd had an abortion themselves. And the refrain was often the same: You're the only one I've told. This book collects those stories as they've been told to Shah to humanize abortion and to combat myths that persist in the discourse that surrounds it.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781641603638