{"id":665,"date":"2013-01-29T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lisahendey\/?p=665"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:51:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:51:29","slug":"isnt-it-time-to-recall-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lisahendey\/2013\/01\/isnt-it-time-to-recall-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn’t It Time to “Recall Abortion”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry\u2019s Exploitation of Women<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Today\u2019s book review is a week late. I\u2019ve been carrying author Janet Morana\u2019s book Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry\u2019s Exploitation of Women<\/a><\/em> with me for a few weeks and had intended to have my remarks on the book ready for last week\u2019s commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. That didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

In many cases, I blame my tardiness on busyness\u2026 too much work to do with too little time. But that wasn\u2019t the case here. What I lacked wasn\u2019t time, but rather the appropriate words to tell you how significant the work Janet has done in\u00a0Recall Abortion<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>has been in my heart. I\u2019ve long considered myself pro-life, and yet never felt that I had the adequate tools to compellingly defend myself in a debate or even in a heated conversation. With\u00a0Recall Abortion<\/a><\/em>, Janet Morana gives us not only tools, but a full, well documented and primed-for-action arsenal<\/strong> to use in battle. And make no mistake \u2014 this is a battle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Janet Morana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So I was all set to write a normal review of this book, and to give it my highest recommendation. I was set to tell you that it is at once expansive<\/strong> and also concise and highly readable<\/strong>, that it delivers facts<\/strong>, but also compelling personal testimony<\/strong>. Here\u2019s a blueprint of the book from Janet\u2019s publisher:<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0Recall Abortion<\/em><\/strong>, author Janet Morana exposes the myriad ways abortion exploits women, and calls for a national recall of this deadly procedure. She documents the way abortion risks and degrades women\u2019s health. And she exposes the false promises and lies by which it is pushed and sold.<\/p>\n

Morana also investigates abortion\u2019s debilitating after-effects, and gives a voice to those women who have chosen abortion and have regretted it. These testimonies (so often silenced by the abortion industry) are a powerful and sometimes heartbreaking glimpse into the real suffering abortion causes, including deep depression and lasting physical and emotional scars.<\/p>\n

Abortion does not empower women. It is not health care. It harms women, severely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I want to share with you that my heart changed about my review last Thursday night, while attending a Rosary after the death of a good friend. My friend Dan was also my television director and producer for the past few years. In fact, if I know anything about using the medium of television, it\u2019s thanks to Dan\u2019s expertise, coaching and largesse<\/em> with my rookie ways. A consumate professional, perhaps his best abilities professionally related to making great art with the limited budget available at a Catholic-owned television station. Attending Dan\u2019s funeral was a privilege. But it was also a reminder about the importance of work being done by women like Janet Morana.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Dan was the proud parent to a son born with Down Syndrome. At Dan\u2019s Rosary, literally dozens of his son\u2019s friends \u2014 now young adults with meaningful lives \u2014 came forward to testify to the power of Dan\u2019s witness as a pro-life advocate. Dan wasn\u2019t the type to witness simply with arguments. Instead, he witnessed with his hands, his heart, and his time. He was a mentor, a special olympics coach, an advocate\u2026 he made a true differnence in the lives and worlds of so many people that the rest of society likely might judge \u201cless than<\/em>\u201c\u2026 indeed people who might in other circumstances have been victims of abortion. Dan knew their hearts, their capacity to love, their talents (and batting averages!) and the ways in which they continually make our world a better place.<\/p>\n

Sitting at Dan\u2019s Rosary, my mind flashed to the main premise of Janet Morana\u2019s book\u00a0Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry\u2019s Exploitation of Women<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>that NOW<\/strong> is the time to \u201crecall\u201d the scourge of abortion. Janet makes her argument with facts and realities, but also by giving a voice to women and men whose lives have been forever ripped apart by what some call \u201cchoice\u201d. Janet deftly answers all of the main arguments you\u2019ll hear for keeping abortion legal both with concrete realities and with the personal accounts of so many. She ends almost every chapter by asking us, \u201cIsn\u2019t it time to recall abortion?\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Listening to my friend\u2019s eulogies so beautifully delivered by gifted people whose parents chose life, I sat asking myself Janet\u2019s question:\u00a0\u201cIsn\u2019t it time to recall abortion?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I am grateful for Janet Morana \u2014 for her ongoing work with Silent No More<\/a> and Priests for Life<\/a>, \u00a0for the tools she has given us with\u00a0Recall Abortion<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>but perhaps most of all for her reminder to me personally that being \u201cpro-life\u201d doesn\u2019t simply mean believing something is wrong, but also that it necessitates being a part of the solution. With her book, she\u2019s given me not only a needed prod to action, but also the framework for being a part of definitive change.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsn\u2019t it time to recall abortion?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Purchase Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry\u2019s Exploitation of Women<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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