VB READS ... FEMINIST BOOK GROUP

Sun, 11/29/2009 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Village Books
1200 Eleventh Street
Bellingham, Washington 98225

Discuss and explore feminism in a fun, empowering environment. Learn how equal treatment of women in society will (obviously) better women’s lives, and men's as well. 
Open to anyone that wants to explore feminism. 
Meet with Jen the LAST SUNDAY
of every month at 2pm 
(Authors do not usually attend VB Reads)

This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor 
by Susan Wicklund        

Dr. Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic 20-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. Through her intimate, complicated, and inspiring accounts, Wicklund reveals the truth about the womens clinics and the lives of her patients.
By Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781586486471
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: PublicAffairs, 12/01/2008
Susan Wicklund was twenty-two-years old and juggling three jobs in Portland, Oregon, when she endured a difficult abortion. Partly in response to that experience, she later embarked on an improbable life journey devoted to women's reproductive health, going to medical school while raising a daughter. It was not until she became a doctor that she realized how many women share the ordeal of unwanted pregnancies--and how hidden this common experience remains. "This Common Secret" is an emotional and dramatic story covering twenty years on the front lines of the abortion war. As we enter the most fevered political fight over abortion that America has ever seen, this raw and revealing memoir shows us what is at stake.