Life's work : (Record no. 1184)
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| control field | NUBLRC |
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| Transcribing agency | NUBLRC |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | GC HQ 767.5 .U5 .P37 2017 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Parker, Willie |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Life's work : |
| Remainder of title | a moral argument for choice / |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Atria Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 217 pages |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 230 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | An abortion provider and Christian reproductive justice advocate draws from his personal journey and professional scientific training as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe, unequivocally, that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do. Dr. Willie Parker grew up in the Deep South, lived in a Christian household, and converted to an even more fundamentalist form of Christianity as a young man. But upon reading an interpretation of the Good Samaritan in a sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he realized that in order to be a true Christian, he must show compassion for all women regardless of their needs. In 2009, he stopped practicing obstetrics to focus on providing safe abortions for the women who need help the most -- often women in poverty and women in the South, the hotbed of the pro-choice debate. He soon thereafter traded in his private practice and his penthouse apartment in Hawaii for the life of an itinerant abortion provider, moving between Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Dr. Willie Parker tells a deeply personal narrative, one that illuminates the complex societal, political, religious, and personal realities of abortion in the United States from the perspective of someone who performs them and defends the right to do so every day. He also looks at how a new wave of anti-abortion activism, aimed at making incremental changes in laws and regulations state by state, is chipping away at the rights of women to control their own lives. In revealing his daily battle against mandatory waiting periods, bogus rules, and pseudoscience, Dr. Parker uncovers the growing number of strings attached to a woman's right to choose and makes a powerful Christian case for championing reproductive rights. -- Publisher description |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Pro-choice movement ; Women's rights ; Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects ; Abortion--Religious aspects ; Birth control--Moral and ethical aspects ; Birth control--Religious aspects |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | General Collection | NU BALIWAG | NU BALIWAG | General Circulation | Purchased - Big Bad Wolf | 230.00 | GC HQ 767.5 .U5 .P37 2017 | NUBUL000000091 | 12/12/2024 | 12/12/2024 | Books |
