Choice Words : A Collection of Writing about Abortion.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Note -- Contents -- Tanya Plibersek: Foreword: unfinished business -- Louise Swinn: Introduction -- Abortion laws across Australia -- Claudia Karvan: Free and relieved -- Shirley Barrett: Doctor Marshall -- Angela Williamson: The Apple Isle -- Caroline de Costa: Who are the abortion providers, and what does the future hold? -- Caroline de Costa: Out of the shadows: abortion in Queensland -- Melissa Lucashenko: Together we are powerful -- Laura Jean: Day of -- Clem Bastow: I dreamed I lost my reproductive rights in my Maidenform bra -- Meredith Burgmann: For the long haul -- Ellena Savage: Unwed teen mum Mary -- Gideon Haigh: The racket -- Anne Summers: A slice of life, 1965 -- Sara Firth: Given the Options -- Gabrielle Stanley Blair: A Twitter thread: abortion, unwanted pregnancies and irresponsible ejaculation -- Brooke Davis: Snorkel -- Michelle Law: Choosing -- Monica Dux: My silent scream -- Catherine Deveny: How abortion set me free -- Jess Scully: Still dancing -- Louise Swinn: In conversation: Jenny Kee and Grace Heifetz -- Samantha Maiden: RU486 in Australia -- Rosie Waterland: The slutty whore from whoresville making us all look bad -- Van Badham: Waiting Room: a villanelle -- Bri Lee: An absurd threshold -- Jane Caro: An old story -- Tony Birch: The manger -- Gina Rushton: From the frontline -- Tara June Winch: Letter to my teenage daughter -- Eleanor Limprecht: Her history, my silence -- Jane Gleeson-White: My womb is not terra nullius -- Emily Maguire: The abortions I have known -- Zoya Patel: Provision: an interview with Dr Kamala Emanuel -- Maxine Beneba Clarke: Weight -- Amy Gray: Against choice -- Melanie Cheng: A test unlike any other -- Contributors -- Notes.

Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.