You Must Stand Up
The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America
by Amanda Becker
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Pub Date Sep 10 2024 | Archive Date Sep 01 2024
Bloomsbury USA | Bloomsbury Publishing
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Description
The inspiring, on-the-ground story of the rising grassroots leaders in the abortion rights movement during the pivotal first year after Dobbs.
When the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization- overturning the constitutional right to abortion care-the country was thrown into chaos. Abortion providers and their patients faced sudden closures, new restrictions, and rapidly changing rules as nearly half of the states moved quickly to ban or severely curtail abortion access. Against this backdrop, an army of health care providers, lawyers, activists, and everyday people mobilized to protect what a majority of Americans want: legal abortion.
In You Must Stand Up, Nieman Fellow Amanda Becker provides a real-time portrait of the creative resistance that unfolded in America's first year without the protections of Roe v. Wade. Amidst daily shifts in health care access, new legal battles coming before partisan courts, and up-for-grabs state constitutions, Becker follows the leaders rising to meet these challenges-doctors and staffers turning to new financial and medical models to remain open and provide abortions, volunteers campaigning against antiabortion ballot initiatives, and medical students fighting to learn to provide what can be lifesaving care.
By depicting the splintered reality of post-Dobbs America, and by capturing how Americans have developed new ways to best protect their constitutional rights, Becker ultimately shows how outrage can beget hope, and give rise to a new movement.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781639731862 |
| PRICE | $29.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |
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Featured Reviews
Jamie C, Reviewer
I have been fighting for abortion rights since before I got my first period. It has always been about medical options, and minding my own business. People have forgotten history. This book is from the perspective of the actual health care providers and the people with their boots on the ground fighting for these rights.
I had successful fetal surgery in 2015. The other options were just fetal demise or selective abortion. I think a lot of people who support these laws do not understand why abortion is so important from a medical standpoint. I was able to afford fetal surgery, get to it (over 1000 miles away), and stop working to be on bedrest for six months. I was incredibly sick. If things progressed naturally I would have had stillborn babies, or if one survived she would have been severely brain damaged. The best option, if I wasn't able to get the surgery, was abortion.
Yes this is sad but I wanted to be alive. Babies don't get to be born when the mother dies.
Here we are in a world where pregnancy is deadly again, or more deadly than it was a few years ago.
This book gave me hope and I cannot pinpoint why. Maybe it was because it talks about all the people fighting for these rights.
Amazing work.
Meghan B, Librarian
I haven't bookmarked and annotated a book this much since grad school. This is a timely, readable book chock full with statistics, stories, and an explanation for how we got where we are now (it's been a long time coming). Highly recommended.
Thank you very much to NetGalley and Bloomsbury USA for the ARC!
Mel R, Reviewer
An insightful and chilling recollection of America, post-Roe V. Wade. Everyone needs to read this book. Right now. We can’t let this piece of history be forgotten. “You Must Stand Up” is as inspiring as it is terrifying. Two years have passed since the overturning of RvW and, having grieved in my own way, I found the author’s call to action igniting! This was an easy read and the facts were so well presented alongside personal anecdotes. Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book!
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