Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0871136597, Hardcover)

Lovejoy Surgicenter is an abortion clinic in Portland, Oregon, but it sits at the very epicenter of the nation's most wrenching issues. Oregon is a largely liberal state with few restrictions on abortion. It is also home to more than its share of extremist groups, including the anti-abortion organization Advocates for Life Ministries. Lovejoy Surgicenter is the site of some 4,000 abortions a year and the target of numerous protests as well as a handful of firebombings. Journalist Peter Korn provides a valuable look at the abortion issue with this absorbing profile of the clinic, the people who run it, the women who use its services, and the groups who will go to almost any length to shut it down. He doesn't turn away from any of the difficult details, whether it is the procedure itself or the methods of the people who would make that procedure illegal once again.