A Complicated Choice

Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement

De: Katey Zeh, Alexis McGill Johnson - foreword

Narrado por: Victoria Browning

Too often, the public abortion debate depicts the experience of ending a pregnancy in falsely simplistic terms. Anti-abortion activists falsely contend that abortion is always emotionally damaging for the pregnant person, while pro-choice activists focus on honoring bodily autonomy and personal conscience. In particular, the pro-choice movement fails to acknowledge that some people experience abortion as a kind of loss.

A Complicated Choice addresses the fact that abortion stigma is ubiquitous, even among those who identify as pro-choice. Rev. Katey Zeh opens up space for the complexities of our reproductive lives, giving voice to the experiences of grief, loss, and healing surrounding abortion experiences. She weaves these personal stories with key insights from the fields of psychology, theology, and public policy.

A Complicated Choice goes beyond the falsely simplistic terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" that define the public abortion debate and centers the real people making the decision to end a pregnancy in the context of their full lives and circumstances. A call to people of faith and to all people to examine our judgments about people who have abortions, we are invited into the act of sacred listening to the real stories of those most impacted.

©2022 Katey Zeh (P)2022 Tantor

Conversation deserving your attention

Thoughtfully presented using shared stories, Ms Zeh guides the reader through a discussion on this delicate and misrepresented topic. I found myself in her examination of attitudes and assumptions I had. I feel enlightened and broaden. Thank you so very much Ms Zeh.