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The Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Movement: Serving Women or Saving Babies?, Laura S. Hussey
Crisis pregnancy centers, the common term for centers that aim to fight abortion by providing aid and services to pregnant women, are an important and glaringly understudied aspect of contemporary abortion politics. It is into this void that Laura Hussey’s The Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Movement: Serving Women or Saving Babies? steps by proposing to answer “how and why the pregnancy help movement emerged, evolved, and expanded, and how it fits into the rest of the pro-life movement’s better-known efforts to end abortion” (pp. 3–4). In so doing, the book adds detail to this stream of activism, at times challenging popular conceptions of these centers and illustrating the need for more work to be done on this important part of modern abortion politics.
The book’s most significant contribution is to describe the services these centers offer, the internal logic of how the centers are meant to challenge abortion, the way activists understand what they are doing, and the forces that have pushed center offerings to change over time. In providing this information, the book exposes some differences between prominent organizations within this service-providing stream of the anti-abortion movement, as well as between these centers and the larger movement. It also lends support to a greater trend in the Christian right of
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