Synopses & Reviews
Thirty years after
Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger people are less and less supportive of reproductive rights. Since 1996, state legislatures have enacted nearly 300 pieces of anti-choice legislation. With Roe in jeopardy, International Planned Parenthood Council Chair Alexander Sanger asks a simple but heretical question: How many more pieces of anti-choice legislation will it take to get the pro-choice movement to rethink its approach to the issue?
In Beyond Choice Sanger explores the history of the reproductive rights movement to discover how it got stuck in its thinking, and then provides a convincing new argument for the moral rightness of its cause. He shows why it is vital to the health and survival of the human race that couples be able to have children, or not, when they choose; why reproductive rights are just as important to men as to women; and why, in an era of new reproductive technologies, completely unfettered choice is not morally defensible.
Beyond Choice is inspiring and important reading for women's rights advocates, opinion leaders, medical ethicists, and anyone concerned to preserve our freedom to reproduce, or not, without government intervention.
Review
"He argues brilliantly against our moral reservations about a woman's right to choose. Anyone who cares about women or children should read this book."
Susan Cheever
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"It is a must read for everyone engaged in the debate and for those who struggle to preserve a woman's right to choose."
A.M. Homes
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"Rethinking everything from first principles, Alexander Sanger brings bracing new intellectual energy and clarity to a vital public debate that has fallen into indignant stalement."
Lance Morrow
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"Beyond Choice contends that the pro-choice movement must re-think its message if it is to have political sucess and then gives a thorough outline of why and how to change the rhetoric."
Governor Christine Todd Whitman
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"It is insightful, easily understood, and written in a scholarly manner that I consider to be helpful whether a person is pro-choice or pro-life."
Joyceln Elders, M.D., Surgeon General under President Clinton
Synopsis
The Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council, former President of Planned Parenthood of New York Cityand grandson of Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movementoffers a controversial new argument and call-to-arms for the prochoice movement.
Synopsis
With reproductive freedom in jeopardy, Alexander Sanger, grandson of renowned family planning advocate Margaret Sanger and a longtime leader in the reproductive rights movement, has taken an urgent, fresh look at the pro-choice positionand even the pro-life positionand finds them necessary, but insufficient. In Beyond Choice he offers the first major re-thinking of these positions in thirty years.
About the Author
Alexander C. Sanger,
the grandson of Margaret Sanger, who founded the birth control movement over eighty years ago, is currently Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council.
Mr. Sanger previously served as the President of Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) and its international arm, The Margaret Sanger Center International (MSCI) for ten years from 1991 - 2000.
Mr. Sanger speaks around the country and the world as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund.