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Told from several points of view, this book
takes on the hard issue of abortion in a sometimes graphic, and
always painful way. First,
there is the abortion doctor, Thor Emerson, a hard driven, hate
filled, selfish individual. He
is running an abortion mill under the lie that he is helping the
girls, while he secretly sells the baby parts to a cosmetics
company, striving to make enough money to pay off the mobsters who
own his gambling debts.
Then, there is his wife, Teresa, a sad woman
who has finally found the courage and gathered enough evidence to
leave him, though it might cost her everything.
Next, there is Maggie, a woman running an abortion recovery
program. Amid
opposition and dangers, she struggles to save the damaged souls
who come to her for healing, and tries to find love herself.
Finally, the most poignant of the characters, a young girl
who is forced to abort her child to ensure her future, who is
badly scarred from the experience in itself, and also from
surviving when a madman shoots up the clinic while she is in
there.
Filled
with danger and emotion, this book had great promise, but it fell
flat. Two-dimensional
characters were overshadowed by the difficult issues and graphic
imagery. Also, the
abrupt shift between viewpoints and scenes made it difficult to
follow.
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