Abortion Confidential is one woman's experience of delivering abortion and birth control services in an Ohio community bent on preventing such services. Like the canary in a coal mine, abortion rights in America are a focus of U.S. women's status in society as it fluctuates between that of chattel to full equality. The book can be read as a case study of social change, both from a societal perspective and from an individual woman's perspective. It is a study of anti-women discrimination and prejudicial behavior from not only a societal but also from a personal perspective. It also opens an...