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"Beyond Limits is moving, personal, insightful, and powerfully written. This book helps us to see people who seek abortions with clarity and compassion, as people in the real world, rather than as the objects of an abstract moral or political debate."—Diana Greene Foster, author of The Turnaway Study
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"Beyond Limits" is a memoir by one of the few third-trimester abortion providers in the United States, who is now retired. Sella organizes this memoir, which is largely about her professional life, by creating composite abortion-seekers from the thousands of patients she saw throughout the years. Her composites are further grouped into two categories: those seeking care because there is a fetal problem, and those seeking care because there is a maternal problem. The composite patients serve two purposes: they maintain the anonymity of past patients and show that seemingly individual problems have universal components. Sella provides unique insight into…
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