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. This Common Secret reveals the truth about the reproductive health clinics that anti-abortion activists mischaracterize as damaging and unsafe. Hers is 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. Now, in this raw and riveting true story, Susan and the patients she's treated share the complex, anguished, and empowering emotions that drove their own choices. and how hidden this common experience remains. This intimate memoir explains how social stigma. when she was going to work, protesters and others. It was not until she became a doctor that she realized how many women shared her ordeal of an unwanted pregnancy. This Common Secret reveals the truth about the reproductive health clinics that anti-abortion activists mischaracterize as damaging and unsafe. Describes the life of susan wicklund, an abortion doctor in the late 1980s to 2000s who started in wisconsin. Growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin. Growing up in working-class rural Wisconsin, Susan made the painful decision to have an abortion at a young age. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. Susan Wicklund chronicles her twenty-year career in the vanguard of the abortion war. In America the reproductive justice debate is reaching a new pitch, with the Supreme Court weighted against women's choice and state legislatures passing bills to essentially outlaw the practice of abortion. A brave account of the social and political forces that threaten a woman's right to choose, this emotionally affecting memoir from a doctor on the front lines of the abortion debate reveals what's really at stake in the Supreme Court

This Common Secret by Susan Wicklund