Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City and the Conflict that Divided

Tue, Apr 25

Book reading, Eyal Press, writer for "The Nation" has written a book
about the anti-choice reign of terror against abortion providers.

Come to Valencia Street Books April 25th to hear his story and to
commemorate those doctors who died for our rights and lives.

The book is called: "Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City and the
Conflict that Divided America"

In 1973, Eyal Press and his family arrived in Buffalo where his
father, Shalom, had accepted a three-year residency in obstetrics and
gynecology, only three weeks after the Supreme Court handed down its
decision in Roe v. Wade. Leaving Israel, a country where militants
routinely invoke religion to justify force, the family expected that
life in Buffalo would be tranquil. They weren't prepared for what the
next three decades held in store-protesters outside their home, mock
funerals at Shalom Press's office and the 1998 threat on his life,
which came shortly after his colleague was killed by James Kopp. The
shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian haunted Eyal, now a journalist, and
compelled him to understand why the abortion conflict has sparked
such passion and fierce moral convictions on both sides of the issue.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Eyal Press is a journalist based in New York City. A regular
contributor to The Nation whose work has appeared in The Atlantic
Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, he was a finalist for the
2004 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and the recipient of the
James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and the Science-in-
Society award from the National Association of Science Writers and
Editors.

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Venue:

Valencia Street Books
569 Valencia Street
San Francisco
415.552.7200
http://valenciastreetbooks.com/

on Valencia between 16th and 17th , the bookstore with the cute cat...

Additional Info:


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