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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Centuryby Alexander Sanger
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Book News Annotation:The grandson of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, Alexander
has served as the organization's president and is now an ambassador
for it to the United Nations. Here he argues that fully legal and
accessible abortion is better for women, men, and children and is
morally right. He provides a framework for analyzing whether some
decisions about childbearing and abortion are morally wrong and
should be prohibited by law.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) 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 Review:"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 Review:"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 Review:"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 Review:"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 City—and grandson of Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movement—offers 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 position—and even the pro-life position—and finds them necessary, but insufficient. In Beyond Choice he offers the first major re-thinking of these positions in thirty years. About the AuthorAlexander 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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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