Aborting America

By Bernard N. Nathanson and Richard N. Ostling

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0919225004
• ISBN13: 9780919225008
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Life Cycle Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

This book is a real eye-opener!

Dr. Bernard Nathanson was an OB-GYN in New York City and a founder of National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) in 1968. He was one of a handful of elitists who made up highly inflated statistics of women hurt by "back alley" abortions in order to win public sympathy to achieve their goal. Nathanson reveals in "Aborting America" how he performed or presided over 75,000 abortions and ran the largest abortion clinic in the world for a time. He was an atheist of Jewish heritage who also aborted two of his own children. All of this makes "Aborting America" highly credible. He had nothing to gain but the wrath of legions of pro-abortion activists who berated him as a traitor. His revulsion of abortion came about over several years time after the advent of ultrasound proved too strong for him to remain in denial of the fact that he was killing living, human babies, and the realization that it is evil. Read this book to learn just how abortion was sold to America by lies and clever manipulation. Then read Nathanson's "The Hand of God" published 17 years later, to learn of the remarkable odyssey Nathanson went through in order to quiet his conscience and find redemption through Christianity.

A doctor writing to doctors regarding the abortion issue

Bernard Nathanson was once at the forefront of the pro-abortion movement in America, both as the director for the largest abortion clinic in America as well as the chairman for the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws. By the time of this volume's writing, however, the author has begun to reexamine his own actions in the abortion scene, as well as the ideological presumptions he had during his involvement with pro-abortion advocacy. From a position of irreproachable medical accomplishment, experience and credentials, Nathanson attempts to objectively examine what abortion means in itself and for society. The position he arrives at, though incomplete, constitutes at least a condemnation of the abortion-on-demand position he at one time supported. The volume is extremely useful as a careful exposition of the raw statistics and objective events in the abortion scene, as well as an extended analysis of the moral dimension of abortion from a variety of starting-points, none of which have as their basis religious or cultural presumptions. In essence, Nathanson is a doctor speaking to other doctors, but in doing so he cuts at the base of pro-abortion advocates who try to dismiss pro-life positions as being "unscientific" or "unprogressive."

An inside view of the movement to legalize abortion.

The New York Times refused to review Aborting America when Nathanson first relesed it -- and the reasons why will be obvious upon reading this eye-opening insider account of the political games that led to the legalization of abortion in America. Nathanson describes the side of abortion prochoicers don't want to acknowledge -- the lies masquerading as data, the seedy practitioners whose life-threatening habits are overlooked by their bedfellows, the shameless political machinations. Nathanson digresses into pontificating in the final chapters, but the meat of the story is there, and is required reading for anybody for whom ignorance is not bliss.