Cet album est un vibrant hommage à Simone Veil, figure féministe populaire et discrète. Le récit s’attache aux temps forts de sa vie, de la loi pour l’IVG défendue à l’assemblée nationale, à son enfance à Nice avant d’être déportée avec sa famille. Simone Jacob est née en 1927 à Nice. A 17 ans elle est déportée à Auschwitz, avec toute sa famille. Ses soeurs et elle reviendront du camp de concentration. Cette période l’a marquée à jamais. En 1946, elle épouse Antoine Veil. Magistrat, elle devient en 1974, ministre de la Santé de Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, chargée de défendre la loi sur l’IVG. En 1993, elle occupe à nouveau la fonction de ministre des Affaires sociales et de la Santé dans le gouvernement d’Edouard Balladur.

Simone Veil a également été députée européenne et membre du Conseil constitutionnel. Elle était présidente d’honneur de la Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah. Cette femme de conviction s’est très peu confiée. Le grand public ne connaissait que sommairement son parcours de déportée.

« Vos yeux comme un lac, je crois qu’ils ne m’ont jamais quittée. » . Simone Veil. . Un nom devenu mythique et qui évoque instantanément une loi, une histoire, une image : celle d’une femme aux yeux opales et au sourire mélancolique, dont le courage, les engagements, la dignité ont marqué les Français, au point d’en faire une héroïne. Annick Cojean est grand reporter au Monde. De portraits en interviews et conversations informelles, elle a noué avec Simone Veil un lien très singulier.Une relation de femmes, faite de confiance et de respect. Bien au-delà du métier. Un portrait délicat et parfois surprenant de Simone Veil, celui d’une héroïne infiniment sensible et viscéralement engagée dans la cause des femmes.

मुंबई: जेव्हा कोविडने जग बंद करण्यास भाग पाडले, तेव्हा प्रख्यात स्त्रीरोगतज्ज्ञ आणि न्यायिक कार्यकर्त्याच्या पत्नी डॉ स्मिता दातार यांनी आपल्या पतीच्या 14 वर्षांच्या धर्मयुद्धाबद्दल लिहिण्यासाठी हातात वेळ घालवला – एक धर्मयुद्ध ज्याने केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडळाला पुरातन काळातील सुधारणा करण्यास भाग पाडले. 2020 मध्ये कायदा. गर्भपाताची वरची मर्यादा 20 आठवड्यांवरून 24 आठवड्यांपर्यंत वाढवण्याचे धोरण ठरविणाऱ्या डॉ. निखिल दातार यांची कहाणी आता 24 डिसेंबर रोजी प्रसिद्ध झालेल्या ‘फक्त तिचीसाथी’ (फक्त तिच्यासाठी) या मराठी पुस्तकात गुंतलेली आहे. मुंबई मध्ये.

Mumbai: When Covid forced the world to shut down, Dr Smita Datar, the wife of a renowned gynaecologist and judicial activist used the time in hand to write about her husband’s 14-year crusade—a crusade that pushed the Union cabinet to upgrade an archaic law in 2020. The story of Dr Nikhil Datar, who got policymakers to raise the upper limit for abortions from 20 weeks to 24 weeks, is now encapsulated in a Marathi book, Fakt Tichyasaathi (Only For Her), which was released on Dec 24 in Mumbai.
(From: https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/pandemic-pushes-wife-to-write-book-on-crusading-doc-who-fought-to-raise-abortion-limit-101671905399843.html)

What kind of person is Henry Morgentaler? Why did he choose to defy the laws of the land? Was it idealism? Desire for fame, money, martyrdom? Eleanor Wright Pelrine searches Henry Morgentaler’s life for answers. Born in Poland, condemned to a death camp by the Nazis, he managed to survive the Second World War and immigrate to Canada as a young man. She describes his medical practice in a low-income Montreal neighbourhood, and the circumstances that led him to found an abortion clinic there. Finally, she chronicles the decade-long battles that ensued between Morgentaler and law-enforcement authorities.

Morgentaler: The Doctor Who Couldn’t Turn Away is a fascinating account of the difficult life and unending struggles of one of Canada’s most controversial figures.

From Barnes & Noble: Here is the definitive biography of one of Canada’s most controversial personalities. Dr. Henry Morgentaler is the unlikely hero at the center of Canada’s most divisive issue—the right to legal and medically safe abortion—and a man of intense contradiction. He is a champion of women, a humanist, and a caring, compassionate doctor, beloved by patients from all social strata. Yet his relationships with friends, family, and lovers over the years have been troubled. Morgentaler is no easy hero, but he is an intriguing subject.

This book is the first to tell his story completely, in all its complexity. It traces the life of a man forced to face death at an early age in Auschwitz, a man who has chosen to live as a perpetual and deliberate outsider, and a man who may not himself understand why he feels he must go to battle for an issue that few Canadians are comfortable with. Morgentaler paints a fascinating portrait of a heroic Canadian figure, complex in his motivations, loved and hated for his central role in the country’s most dangerous debate.

San Francisco’s Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Prohibition was the driving force behind organized crime, abortions became the third-largest illegal enterprise as state and federal statutes combined with changing social mores to drive abortionists into hiding. Inez Brown Burns, a notorious socialite and abortionist in San Francisco, made a fortune providing her services to desperate women throughout California. Beginning in the 1920s, Burns oversaw some 150,000 abortions until her trial and conviction brought her downfall.

Born in the slums of San Francisco, Inez Burns transformed herself into one of California’s richest women, becoming a notorious powerbroker, grand dame, and iconoclast. A stunning beauty with perfumed charm, she rose from manicurist to murderess to millionaire, seducing one man after another, bearing children out of wedlock, and bribing politicians and cops along the way to secure her place in the San Francisco firmament.

During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team of women, clad in crisp, white nurse’s uniforms, worked night and day in her elegantly appointed clinic, performing fifty thousand of the safest, most hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars, and mistresses had few options when they found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy.