There Is No Black and White

Is it a woman's right to choose and have a say in her reproductive health or immoral women having sex and killing unborn babies? Or is the abortion debate immensely more complicated and nebulous? Who would consider or even have an abortion? Who has "late-term" abortions and why? Who are these women? What are their stories? In her debut work, Joan D'Action delves into the shades of gray inherent in the abortion debate to tackle the true root of the problem: unplanned/ unwanted pregnancy. Raised conservative Catholic, but later exposed to other narratives as well as research into women's rights, reproductive rights, and the harsh realities of lives outside of her upper-middle-class religious bubble, D'Action understands and lays out the spectrum of the issues involved, but not often acknowledged. She walks readers through the hypothetical lives of these women and their families who face these concerns and then backs them up with real historical and contemporary examples along with research studies, laying out the case for why abortions are considered and enacted in today's less-than-ideal world which includes instances of rape, threatening socio-economic factors, and medical concerns. She then lays out a two-pronged proposal, backed by and proposed by experts in various fields that would actually address the root problem of unplanned pregnancies.