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297 Acknowledgments I’ve amassed a lot of intellectual and social debt in recent years that cannot be repaid, much less adequately recognized, in a page or two. But I’ll try. My first thanks go to Ilene Kalish, my editor at NYU Press, her colleagues Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, Cynthia Garver, and Gabrielle Begue . Ilene “got” this book from the beginning; her careful editing ensured that others would stand a better chance of getting it, too. I’m proud to join the ranks of authors whose books Ilene has fostered and shaped. Reviewers Jennifer Reich and Helen Eigenberg gave this manuscript a thorough and critical reading, providing pages of astute and helpful comments . The book has been transformed as a result. Pierre Diaz read most of the entire manuscript, twice, and raised several sensitive questions in the kindest way. Tanya Krupat of the Osborne Association and Fordham colleagues Jenny Brooks-Klinger, Evelyn Bush, and Ayala Fader helpfully commented on individual chapters. My thinking about reproductive rights (and the cause in general) has been aided and altered by knowing Lynn Paltrow and the women of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, especially Cheryl Howard, and Tiloma Jayasinghe. (Proceeds from this book will be shared with NAPW). I also leaned heavily on the ideas and scholarship of Dorothy Roberts, Rachel Roth, Nicole Rafter, Rickie Solinger, and researchers at the Guttmacher Institute. All mistakes and missteps are, of course, my own. Graduate students Ed Gallagher, Brian McKernan, Lisa Barnard, and Ming Shi undertook several tedious but important tasks with competence and good humor. Thanks are in order to Jim McCabe and his capable and accommodating staff at Walsh Library. Fordham University also provided me with well-timed and much-appreciated research support and course relief. Friends who provided a sounding board for the issues raised in this book include Sandra Baxter, Dick Bennett, Jim Lynch, as well as Liz Agosto , Lisa Barnard, Hugo Benavides, Mary Bosworth, and Candace McCoy, 298 Acknowledgments Holly Catania, Erica Chito Childs, Mary Beth Combs, Ed Gallagher, Greta Gilbertson, Iesha Haywood, Linda Ireland, Jacki Johnson, Mary Kenny, Aileen Leonard, Laura Logan, Eileen Markey and Jarrett Murphy, Venezia Michalsen, Kerry Mullins, Stacy Torres, and my sisters, Karin and Elaine. I am also grateful to Rosa Giglio and Paula Genova, Doyle McCarthy, Mary Powers, Orlando and Phyllis Rodriguez, Amy Desautels, Stephanie Laudone , and my colleagues and graduate students in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology; as well as friends Kathy Ashby, Mary Boyce, Jennifer Nye, Ellen Unruh, Bruce Berg, Jacque Helvey Moore and Rosie Winkel; and Andrea Arroyo, Felipe “Feggo” Galindo, Catherine Friedl, Pat Friesen, Adrienne Navon, and the inimitable Pamela Roberts. My life is decidedly richer for having these people in it. I couldn’t ask for better champions than four women: Nicola Pitchford and Jeanne Kalosieh remain warmly regarded and regular sources of distraction and support. Miki Akimoto critiqued an early draft of the manuscript , a noteworthy feat in itself. Our longstanding friendship grounds me and sustains me. As much as I marvel at Maria Fernandez Gold’s unparalleled organizational skills, I admire her warmth and her devotion to daughters everywhere (not just her own) even more. To the staff of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center I owe a debt of life and health. My parents and a rural farm upbringing ensured that I (like my siblings) was raised with the values of “pitching in,” getting along, and doing what one thinks is right. If there are two more hard-working and rock solid people than Harold and Leona Flavin, I haven’t met them. Two of my aunts, Sr. Edwardine Flavin, CSJ, and Sr. Loretta Jasper, CSJ, belong to a small convent that was involved in the immigrant sanctuary movement of the 1980s. I credit both of them with being lifelong role models and advocates for social justice. Today, they, along with my parents, are the family members I most count on for a grounded perspective on the way the world is and how it ought to be. Finally, one of the hardest parts of writing this book has been knowing that there are people in my life whose opinions I value who will not just disagree with some of what I’ve said but may be offended by it. I write secure in the knowledge, though, that we share a commitment to bettering women’s lives and a belief in the need to address the inequalities that define our society. And for that, I am very grateful. New...

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