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Author Peters, Rebecca Todd, author.

Title Trust women : a progressive Christian argument for reproductive justice / Rebecca Todd Peters.

Publication Info. Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, 2018.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  362.1988 PETERS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.198 PETERS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  362.198 PET    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  362.1988 PETERS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.1988 PETERS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.1988 PET    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  362.1988 PETERS    Check Shelf
Description 240 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "In an age where Roe v. Wade is in danger of being overturned, a minister and ethicist offers a Christian defense of abortion, arguing that we need to trust women to make moral decisions about their pregnancies, their families, and their futures. Unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of women's reproductive lives: roughly one-third of US women will have an abortion by age forty-five, and fifty to sixty percent of the women who have abortions were using birth control during the month that they got pregnant. Yet women who have abortions are shamed and judged for their actions, and safe access to abortion is under relentless assault. In this carefully reasoned and powerful book, Christian ethicist Rebecca Todd Peters argues that abortion is not the problem. The problem is our inability to trust women to act as rational, capable, responsible moral agents who must weigh the concrete moral question of how to respond to a particular unplanned pregnancy. When we move away from a debate requiring women to justify ending a pregnancy, Peters writes, and toward a debate that considers the broader social problems and questions that shape women's reproductive lives, and the lives of their children, we will have created a public policy debate that is asking the right questions. In an age in which women's reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, Peter's stirring defense of abortion as an ethical choice is necessary reading"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Abortion -- United States.
Motherhood -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Abortion & Birth Control.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Women's Issues.
Abortion. (OCoLC)fst00794582
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00794623
Motherhood. (OCoLC)fst01026907
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Online version: Peters, Rebecca Todd. Trust women. Boston : Beacon Press, 2018 9780807069998 (DLC) 2017061131
ISBN 9780807069981 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
0807069981 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
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