reprint

Some months back, a publisher contacted me about reprinting my Roe v. Wade essay. I just got a copy of the book in the mail, and I'm so pleased.

The piece is being used in a series called "Issues On Trial"; this edition is on Reproductive Rights. I believe they're mainly used in public and school libraries.

The main headings are: Upholding Involutary Sterilization Laws - Buck v. Bell (1927); Legalizing Contraception - Griswold v. Connecticut (1965); Legalizing Abortion - Roe v. Wade (1973); Disputing the Fate of Frozen Embryos - A.Z. v. B.Z. (2000). For each, there's an overview of the Supreme Court case and decision, then between four and seven opinion pieces.

It's just a wee bit strange to see my name in the brief table of contents, alongside Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Blackmun and Stephen Jay Gould! I have no idea why the editor chose my piece, but it was a nice bit of luck. Something every writer can use once a decade or so.

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  1. It's just a wee bit strange to see my name in the brief table of contents, alongside Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Blackmun and Stephen Jay Gould!

    August company indeed! Congrats.

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  2. Congrats Laura!

    "feminista thumbsucker."

    You got to love their creativity...

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  3. Congratulations.

    I was called a feminazi once by a man who just couldn't understand why I wouldn't "put on a dress" and go to his church.

    He didn't say it to me - he said it to my grandson. I reported him to his Bishop but in a way it was a compliment.

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  4. Thanks all. :)

    I figure I've "made it" when the right wingers call me names!

    I know! That's why I enjoyed the stupid attacks I used to get from wingnuts on this blog. After I while I tired of it and just found it irritating. But if our lives and ideas make the close-minded bigots angry, we're on the right track.

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  5. What, my snarky faux-comments don't count?

    Now I'm offended! You buncha commenazis!

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  6. Your faux snarks are in a class by themselves. You've crippled the wingnut movement in ways you probably don't even realize. (Am I close?)

    You buncha commenazis!

    Commenazis! Oo, good one. :-D

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  7. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Blackmun, and Laura?

    Wow, those are some big names there. Now I want to come to your party more than ever so at least I get to pee perhaps not next to you, but with you under the same roof. You will let me use your bathroom, right?

    And OMG! In a lakeside neighborhood :^D

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  8. You will let me use your bathroom, right?

    I'll consider it.

    And OMG! In a lakeside neighborhood :^D

    :D You goof.

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