The View from the Clinic

Timely, informative, and essential reading for Pro-Life and Pro-Choice advocates and governmental policy makers, The View from the Clinic: One Nurse's Journey in Abortion Care is especially and unreservedly recommended. -Midwest Book Review D'Amato's timely new book provides rare first-hand insight into a health care procedure essential to women's health, but now severely limited in much of the country...This book should be required reading in nursing schools, where a new generation of caregivers must take up the challenge of making abortion safe, legal, and every woman's choice. -Suzanne Gordon, healthcare journalist and author of Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public and other books. D'Amato is honest, thoughtful, and poetic as she shares her experiences. She asks us to look within ourselves and really examine our intentions on earth. -Abby Sher, Award Winning Writer, Performer, Author of Kissing Snowflakes D'Amato brings ground-level view of abortion in this poignant memoir... These stories remind us that the choice to terminate a pregnancy is simple for some, fraught with complexities for others, but in all cases it is a private matter to be managed between the pregnant patients and their health care team. -Debra D'Alessandro, MPH, Director of Public Health Training, Health Federation of Philadelphia A book that challenges the reader to throw out all preconceived notions about abortion based on political talking points. Patrice's nurse perspective and experience shows that this is not a black and white issue, and that personal choice should always remain so. -Asha Dahva, Producer, Author, Speaker