Pro-choice is pro-life as far as the Earth is concerned. My new book, Life Choices: The Teachings of Abortion, synthesizes this understanding. I’m excited to be able to offer it to you. I want so much for us to move beyond the violence of the fierce and consuming struggle to keep abortion safe and legal. A spiritual ecology of relationship, connection, and love—of heart—along with a clear feminist vision can help this along. My hope is make a contribution to this through the ideas in Life Choices.
The book has been a long time coming – over twenty years. It took all that time because the deepening of my experience of connection to the All of Life had to reach a point of solid knowing that my own nature as a human being and as a woman was part of nature, not separate from it, and where I had direct experience of the oneness that unites all of life. As my life unfolded, the strength and inclusivity of my growing perspective allowed me to delve into some of the more difficult aspects of the abortion issue. Nature’s ongoing creativity is a life-death-life “choice making.” It is from this point of view that I see the life giving aspect of the abortion choice and say that pro-choice is pro-life.
Life Choices is now available for pre-order by clicking on one of the icons in the column on the right. It will be in the bookstores by late September. I will give a talk and book signing at Boulder Bookstore on Tuesday, September 27, 7:30 p.m. It’s an exciting time.
Congratulations, this is an important book and I’m glad I found it. We Phineas and I and his great children Nell 9 and Julian 11 see Mark Perry often, he’s teaching anthropology at Tulane and he asks about you all.
Warmly
Thanks so much, Ros. Great to hear from you.