Book description
While researching a story on abortion, journalist Laura Malloy becomes caught up in the lives of the people devastated by the recent bombing of the Lakeview Family Planning Clinic.
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As a former newspaper reporter, I identified with this book. Newspaper reporter Laura Malloy has walked into the Lakewood Family Planning Clinic in St. Paul to interview the director of the clinic when a bomb goes off in the hallway and the young man very near her dies as Laura is propelled backward through the door. Laura tries to find whoever made the bomb, meeting with the young man’s girlfriend, who was at the clinic to get an abortion, his mother and brother, the head of the “pro-life” group, his wife, and others. I found this murder mystery to be…
From Ames' list on reproductive freedom.
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