A Woman's Life Is a Human Life

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A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life is a brave, timely, and potent corrective to the received wisdom of Roe v. Wade and to reproductive rights in New York and the nation, pulling together the history of two key victories pre- and post-Roe v. Wade that were pioneered by a diverse group of women activists.It rectifies the longstanding misconception that the Supreme Court gave us abortion access – a victory that was won by activists and set off a national wave of others. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade was greatly influenced by these already won victories, as well as the impact it would have on things like professional organizations run by doctors and lawyers.It is also an important reckoning with what the feminism of the time left out, with vital lessons for today’s activists on how life experience can limit or expand the futures we envision. When middle-class white feminists failed to see how the sterilization of poor women and women of color was part of the reproductive freedom agenda, they not only let their movement down but also, Kornbluh argues, missed a chance to escape the secular vs. religious binary that has set the terms of the debate ever since.It’s also chock full of great stories – from the abortion referral service started by a group progressive Christian and Jewish clergy, to the fraught moment in the state Assembly when a decisive vote was changed despite electoral suicide, to the occupation of the Bronx’s substandard Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords, abetted by a group of activist doctors – this is lively, on the ground history with truth and real stakes in ordinary lives.Includes exclusive interviews with the activists who led the reproductive justice movement as well as its leading historians and never-seen archival sources.The first in-depth study of a winning campaign against a state's abortion law, and the first book to take the sterilization abuse fight side by side.Felicia is an established writer. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, In These Times, and the Women’s Review of Books. A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life will feature photos, both private and public, of the people leading the 1970s reproductive rights movements, such as Meredith Tax, Karen Stamm, Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías, Betty Friedan, Florynce Kennedy, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Sarah Schulman, and more.We expect jacket blurbs from a sensational collection of authors, journalists, and activists. Pulitzer Prize winning author David Garrow, prize-winning author Leslie J. Reagan, Sarah Schulman, Alix Kates Shulman, and historian Linda Gordon have already weighed in.Strong potential academic outreach – the book is an ideal primer for readers who are not yet familiar this history and lends itself to course adoption.