The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
by Gloria Feldt
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Author: Gloria FeldtEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-13
ISBN: 0553382926
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Bantam
Book Reviews of The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
Book Review: "Is there "another side" to the issue of cold-blooded murder?"
Summary: 1 Stars
You'd think the above title of the review would be my reaction to the book. On the contrary, this quote can be found on p. 183. Someone who supports abortion actually made this quote about another topic.
This book is a complete waste of time. It is FULL of every single semantic, meaningless phrase you have ever heard from the PC side and then some. The author spends several pages complaining about the use of the term "partial-birth abortion" as a propaganda term which is "medically and scientifically inaccurate". yet several chapters later, uses the "medically and scientifically inaccurate" term "pre-embryo" to describe an embryo which has not implanted. Apparently the author is not familiar with pro-choice Princeton biologists Lee Silver's book "Remaking Eden" where he admits that the term "pre-embryo" is purely political.
Of course, all you can really expect from a book like this is semantics. The entire pro-choice movement was built on a solid foundation of carefully crafted word choices, and this book is no different.
The one redeeming thing about this book is that it actually made it seem like pro-lifers were and will make some ground in defeating abortion, but it certainly does not appear that way. It's unfortunate, because I'm sure there are several books that deal with the issue of abortion in a competent manner, but this is not one of them.
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