This intimate memoir explains how social stigma and restrictive legislation can isolate women who are facing difficult personal choices and how we as a nation can, and must, support them. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic. As we enter the most fevered political fight over abortion America has ever seen, this raw and powerful memoir shows us what is at stake. This Common Secret reveals the truth about the reproductive health clinics that anti-abortion activists mischaracterize as damaging and unsafe. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (Paperback). Through these intimate, complicated, and inspiring accounts, Wicklund reveals the truth about the women's clinics that anti-abortion activists portray as little more than slaughterhouses for the unborn. This is also the story of the women whom Susan serves, women whose options are increasingly limited. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor By Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (Paperback). Hers is also a calling that means sleeping on planes and commuting between clinics in different states,and that requires her to wear a bulletproof vest and to carry a. This is the story of Susan's love for a profession that means listening to women and helping them through one of the most pivotal and controversial events in their lives. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (Paperback). It was not until she became a doctor that she realized how many women shared her ordeal of an unwanted pregnancy,and how hidden this common experience remains. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor By Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim. Growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin, Wicklund had her own painful abortion at a young age. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war.

This Common Secret by Susan Wicklund