There is a bomb in Gilead: Tale from an uncivil war (1999)

by William F. Harrison

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A fictional story based on the real life experiences of an abortion provider. This book is meant to show how radical beliefs can cause harm and pain, not only to those who believe differently but to the believer himself. A important story about the struggle that women have faced to keep this most basic of rights. (

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The Reverend John C. Calhoon Tyler

Joshua Tyler

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Gilead

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Epigraph

Oh, if the World were but to re-create,

That we might catch ere closed the Book of Fate,

And make the Writer on a Fairer leaf

Inscribe our names, or quite obliterate!

Better, oh, better, cancel from the Scroll

Of universe one luckless Human Soul,

Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that roars

Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages Roll.

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Dedication

These tales from this rude war are dedicated to my wife, Mother of my Children, Inspiration of all my modest Success, who freely gave me Constancy, Love and Sacrifice; and to my children from whom I learned Responsibility and to give Unconditional Love - though this was a hard lesson, and, like all hard lessons, perhaps never entirely assimilated. I pray that this book might by worthy of them.

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It is early 1986, 3:00 a.m. on a cold, dry morning in a town called Gilead.

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But like any American city in the latter part of the twentieth century, [Gilead] is most assuredly not a "great place to live" should you find yourself pregnant, immature, umarried, uneducated, and on your own with two small children and another on the way.

If we spend our time crying and mourning for what might have been, we're usually going to make impossible what could have been. Don't destroy your future grieving about your past. Do what you can to set your world upright and get on with your life. What you've done and what you're about to do, don't make you a bad person.

"I wisht I'ad'a stayed home when I'as eighteen. I us'ter whisht I'ad a'died in'at creek, on on'at road, or in'at hospital in Kansas City." The look of irremediable sadness which had graced Agnes' countenance throughout her recital was replaced by an expression of fierce determination. "But I ain't never been sorry'at I had'at abortion!"

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