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Willie Parker
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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
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2017
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7 editions
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“I see no reason why a woman should feel herself deserving of a separation from God because of a decision she has to make. The Jesus I love has a nonconformist understanding of his faith. He realizes that the petty rules and laws laid down by the fathers and authorities are meaningless, and that to believe in a loving God is to refuse to stand in judgment of any fellow mortal.”
― Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
― Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
“It was not lost on me, an African American man from Birmingham, Alabama, descended from slaves, that new legislation aimed at telling women what they might and might not do with their own physical bodies looked a whole lot like men owning women’s bodies.”
― Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
― Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
“It is my personal belief that the abhorrence of abortion expressed by the men who place themselves at the barricades in front of abortion clinics is actually a misplaced horror at women’s sexual autonomy. It stands to reason: women’s sexual independence is the thing that men have always wanted to control. But for the women in the abortion clinic waiting room, the sex itself is history and totally beside the point. They are here to pursue their lives. Every”
― Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
― Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
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