02806cam a2200313 4500 529981808 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781641603669 1641603666 B084Z24PP7 Amazon 701339a9-43ec-4b41-acdb-04e6102eab66 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5644621 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shah, Meera. You're the Only One I've Told [Libby] : The Stories Behind Abortion. Chicago Review Press, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1183kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few years, Shah decided it was time to be direct. &amp;#8220;I'm an abortion provider,&amp;#8221; she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new. One by one, people would confide—at BBQs, at jury duty, in the middle of the greeting card aisle at Target— that in fact they'd had an abortion themselves. And the refrain was often the same: <i>You're the only one I've told.</i> This book collects those stories as they've been told to Shah to humanize abortion and to combat myths that persist in the discourse that surrounds it. An intentionally wide range of ages, races, socioeconomic factors and experiences, shows that abortion does not happen in a vacuum—it always occurs in a unique context. Today, abortion has become a core political litmus test for party loyalty. A healthcare issue that's so precious and foundational to reproductive, social, and economic freedom for millions of people is exploited by politicians who lack understanding or compassion about the context in which abortion occurs. Stories have power to break down stigmas and help us to empathize with those whose experiences are unlike our own. They can also help us find community and a shared sense of camaraderie over experiences just like ours. <i>You're the Only One I've Told</i> will do both. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=701339a9-43ec-4b41-acdb-04e6102eab66&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=701339a9-43ec-4b41-acdb-04e6102eab66&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=701339a9-43ec-4b41-acdb-04e6102eab66&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)