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. I'm an abortion provider, she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new. One by one, people would confide at barbecues, at jury duty, in the middle of the greeting card aisle at Target that in fact they'd had an abortion...

Presents a history of the debate over reproductive rights in the United States, focusing on the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling and examining the belief systems that continue to impact health care for women.

In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe versus Wade decision, women seeking abortions had to subject themselves to illegal, unregulated abortionists. This study reveals the presence of a secret organization, code-named Jane, which provided an alternative. Here the women tell their own stories.

Reports on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.

"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...

The death of a doctor's daughter may be malpractice—or murder—in this novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author: "I loved it" (Stephen King).
In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall's teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation

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"The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh-"a gifted chronicler of the human condition" (Washington Post Book World)-is a tense, riveting story about the disparate lives that intersect at a woman's clinic in Boston"--

After being expelled from boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.

"For fans of Celeste Ng and Leni Zumas's Red Clocks: When a young woman emerges from a lengthy coma-like state she must face the decisions that were made about her body--without her consent--in this powerful novel of reclamation and hope" --

A young, newly elected President and his nominee for Supreme Court Chief Justice are put into a political and moral hot seat when a late-term abortion case appears on the docket during the confirmation process.