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It's the 2008 election season and the war between Pro-Life and
Pro-Choice factions has become so intense, that one organization is
scheming to cause unintended pregnancies in the families of Pro-Life
politicians, while another encourages its followers to bomb clinics and
cut off the hands of doctors who perform abortions.The conflict gets
much more personal for the family of Congressman Mark Wagner. His
fourteen-year-old daughter, Pamela, fending for herself while her
parents were preoccupied, had insufficient knowledge to avoid pregnancy.
Senator Roger Evans's seventeen-year-old daughter, Vivian, faithfully
took her birth control pills, but as can happen, they failed.Both
teenagers have fathers who are staunch Pro-Lifers. Both teens and their
associates wind up in grave danger when conspirators expose their
private dilemmas to the world.This political thriller explores the
medical, religious, economic, and historical aspects of the abortion
issue, as it draws the reader onto a frightening battleground where
powerful forces resort to extraordinary weaponry to both preserve and
eradicate the rights of humans to fully understand and manage their
ability to procreate.
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My review: Eliza was a
nurse in the OBGYN ward. Pamela was a young, sweet teen that just gave birth to
a dead baby.
Vivian was a
college kid in the middle of a pregnancy scare. There was no way that she could
tell her academically driven boyfriend. They weren’t prepared for this. Maybe
she could get an abortion? But she wasn’t brought up that way.
When I
started this, I was hoping to find a story in the array of contractions,
C-sections, and premature abortions. It can be quite detailed in the schematics
of pregnancy and labor (it was almost nauseating.) The action and drama
parallels what you’d find on ER.
Ultimately,
this was about Pro-Choice activists A.K.A. “NEB” (Nobody Else’s Business)
waging against Anti-Choice politicians. The lives of various characters are
intermingled in a political debate of Pro-Choice.
I’m not much
into politics, but I can certainly value the complexities of women’s fiction
and this book was definitely complex. First of all, there were too many stories
in one, even though each character’s perspective brought a little something to
the mix. I’d say the best story was with Vivian and Greg—their love triangle
and pregnancy problem. The whole thing
had that dramatic flair and tension between the characters, but it was much too
complicated. There were actually too many characters. You almost lose track of
who’s who. This book was leaning toward a political thriller, but I didn’t
quite get that feeling; it felt more dramatic than anything else.
My rating: 2 stars
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