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Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

Top of the pile

91

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

90/100

Critics

91/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Kathryn Kolbert, Julie F. Kay

Publisher:

Hachette Books

Date:

July 13, 2021

Legal titans Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay share the story of one of the most divisive issues in American politics through behind-the-scenes personal narratives of losses, victories, and accounts of women and health care providers at the heart of nearly five decades of legal battles. At this make-or-break moment for legal abortion in the United States, Kolbert and Kay propose new strategies inspired by medical advances, state-level protections, human rights models, and activists across the globe whose courage and determination are making a difference. No more banging our heads against the Court's marble walls. It is time for a new direction.

What The Reviewers Say

Eleanor J. Bader,
The Women's Review of Books
... urgently needed.
Barrie Olmstead,
Library Journal
... concise and pragmatic.
Jenna Jay,
Booklist
... passionate, informative.

Kirkus
Two legal titans who have been defending abortion rights for decades catch us up on the current disaster and plot the road ahead.