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After Theresa Cole finds out she’s pregnant with a child likely to be born with a genetic abnormality, an infant she and her husband Charlie had eagerly anticipated, she considers having an abortion. When she subsequently disappears from her family's Minnesota farm, her sister Annie tries to figure out why. No one else seems concerned at first, except Charlie, who's stationed in Afghanistan, and Charlie’s father, Woodrow, who drives an eyebrow-raising pickup all the way from Alabama to search for his son’s missing wife. Claire, another sister, becomes alarmed too and agrees to help. But Theresa’s mother Maureen, a deeply religious woman, takes a stand against them, determined to save Theresa and her baby both, no matter the costs to herself or anyone else.
Theresa et al. surveys America’s battlefield on abortion from many points of view, exploring how a woman’s choices—or lack thereof—pierce the fabric of family life, impacting not only those closest to her, but spreading out in tremors that have a ripple effect on the communities that surround her.
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- General Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction and Literature, Politics and Government
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- JeanHackel (Auteur)
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- oktober 2022 Begint op: 2022-10-03Uitgelezen: 2022-10-25
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- 2022-09-08
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I began writing Theresa et al. on the day the novel begins: May 9, 2018. At that time, the right to obtain an abortion was considered part of the framework of liberty protected by the U.S. Constitution. Since then, on June 24, 2022, the Dobbs decision returned the legal status of abortion to individual states to decide and thereby denied countrywide constitutional protection for the right to abortion.
Theresa et al. examines the ramifications of a woman's inability to obtain an abortion on her life, on her family and community, and on the child she has decided not to bring into the world. I hope this novel helps a reader better understand the complexity of those ramifications as 50 individual states create a patchwork of laws pertaining to abortion.