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Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars
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Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars Paperback - 2000

by Cynthia Gorney

Chronicling the years between Roe v. Wade (1973) and William L. Weaver v. Reproductive Health Service (which brought the issue before an anti-Wade court in 1989), Gorney draws on 500 interviews to look at the passions that propel individuals on both sides of the abortion wars.


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Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Articles of Faith is a powerful exploration of one of the most divisive issues in our recent political history, and the only book to portray the passion of both sides of the abortion conflict.
Drawing from more than five hundred interviews as well as previously unseen archival material, Cynthia Gorney has written a compelling narrative that explores the years between Roe v. Wade (1973) and William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989), the first case to challenge the Roe decision before an anti-Roe court.
Meet Judith Widdicombe, the registered nurse who runs the abortion underground in 1960s St. Louis and then the first legal clinic after Roe v. Wade. And meet Samuel Lee, a young pacifist and would-be seminarian whose provocative abortion bill becomes the centerpiece of William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. The Supreme Court case brings the two advocates head-to-head.

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WHAT HAPPENED in Sedalia was not a thing that Robert Duemler talked about: not the place, or the smell, or the low sick feeling that came to his stomach when he thought about it afterward.

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Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Articles of Faith is a powerful exploration of one of the most divisive issues in our recent political history, and the only book to portray the passion of both sides of the abortion conflict.

Drawing from more than five hundred interviews as well as previously unseen archival material, Cynthia Gorney has written a compelling narrative that explores the years between Roe v. Wade (1973) and William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989), the first case to challenge the Roe decision before an anti-Roe court.

Meet Judith Widdicombe, the registered nurse who runs the abortion underground in 1960s St. Louis and then the first legal clinic after Roe v. Wade. And meet Samuel Lee, a young pacifist and would-be seminarian whose provocative abortion bill becomes the centerpiece of William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. The Supreme Court case brings the two advocates head-to-head.

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  • Title Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars
  • Author Cynthia Gorney
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Touchstone E
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, US
  • Date 2000-01-05
  • ISBN 9780684867472 / 0684867478
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.62 x 1.41 in (22.91 x 16.81 x 3.58 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Theometrics: Secular
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Abortion - Missouri - History, Pro-life movement - Missouri - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.460

About the author

Cynthia Gorney was a reporter for The Washington Post from 1975 to 1991 and was its South American Bureau Chief from 1980 to 1982. She is Associate Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
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