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Life Choices is a bold exploration of the spiritual essence of abortion, the historical context for it, and how it leads us to live with more awareness. Abortion has lessons to teach everyone about making conscious choices in our lives and opens the way to a greater connection with love, death, power, and all life. The essentially pro-life nature of abortion asks us to accept death as part of the flow of life. The failure to understand this contributes to the ferocious abortion wars.
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Weber, a psychotherapist, spiritual counselor, and abortion counselor who founded an abortion/women's health clinic, helps women gain perspective on their experiences with abortion by telling stories of her clients (as well as her own) and their decisions, to address the personal, political, historical, psychological, and spiritual issues associated with abortion. She argues for the positive effects of the right to abortion on women's lives, their empowerment, and autonomy, and aims to show how responsible choice occurs in these situations. She addresses themes such as moral responsibility, birth and death, the institution of motherhood, pregnancy and self, support from others, patriarchy and women's history, laws in the US, the body and sexuality, sexual violence and abuse, sexual planning, and grief. There is no index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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