- Hardcover: 206 pages
- Publisher: Regnery Publishing (April 1 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0895264633
- ISBN-13: 978-0895264633
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #638,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
During a period of roughly 20 years, Nathanson performed over 75,000 abortions. Since 1975, however, he has been among the leaders of the pro-life movement in the United States. Here, in a book that is part spiritual autobiography, part political campaign and part history of abortion, Nathanson explores the factors that led him into and eventually out of the abortion business. Nathanson recounts the moral hollowness and a paternalistic treatment of women and their bodies during his early years in medicine that allowed him to abort even his own child in a cold and antiseptic matter. However, the advent of ultrasound, and its images of the fetus as a developing life, along with a progressive conversion to Roman Catholicism, convinced Nathanson of the immorality of abortion and led him into a new phase of his life as a doctor. As revealing as this story is Nathanson's condescending tone and sententious sentences (e.g., "I will spare you the ineluctable Tolstoian observation, but I implore you to consider the psychological abyss that yawned beneath me") elicit very little sympathy either for Nathanson's plight or for the pro-life position.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Nathanson cofounded the pro-choice organization NARAL in 1969 and during 1971^-72 made New York's Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health the best U.S. abortion clinic--accomplishments at the forefront of the push to make abortion commonplace. Before then, he had had a frustrating life distinguished by a love-hate relationship of epic proportions with his father. The senior Nathanson was a cold husband, a cruelly domineering parent, and a Jew who denigrated Judaism yet raised his son in it; but he was a conscientious physician faithful to the Hippocratic oath with its hard line against abortion. His son followed his example in most things, only rebelling by discarding religion and championing abortion. During the 1970s, Nathanson changed, becoming an important voice against abortion and assisted suicide and fetal tissue experimentation, too. At the end of his memoir cum apologia, he imparts that he hopes to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. Thanks to a wide-ranging vocabulary and a flare for cadenced prose, he makes most of his testimony lively and enthralling reading. Ray Olson
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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amazing story and insight,
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This review is from: The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Hardcover)
Bernard Nathanson knows abortion--he "provided" thousands of them before realizing he was murdering thousands of babies. After seeing ultrasound and discovering the self-evident humanity and life of the unborn, Nathanson became pro-life and became saved as well. This book contradicts moral relativism and the belief that killing innocent human life is okay sometimes. It is truly an amazing book. It not only tells an inspiring story, it also provides a lot of information on sickening organizations such as the pro-abortion NARAL, which he co-founded. Bernard Nathanson has done humanity a favor by exposing the murder of abortion behind closed doors.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A Very Honest View,
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This review is from: The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Paperback)
This book was about an doctor who performed many abortions until he had a change of heart and became pro-life. In the process, he finds God through the Catholic church.This book is very honest about how he performed many abortions, including one on his own child. It takes great courage for someone to stand up and admit he is wrong to commit such a terrible crime against humanity. This book gives a lot of background on his growing up years and medical training. This book also details the abortion procedure and how it can be harmful to the women who have them. However, this book was hard to read. Clearly, this man is intelligent and well-educated, but I personally don't have his vocabulary. I did not know what a lot of the words he used meant and had to guess at what he was talking about through the context in which he was talking about. I also would have liked to have found out more about his son and his wives, and how being an abortion doctor affected them. This is a good book for research on the abortion issue. I would recommend that book for that purpose, but personally, I preferred "Won by Love" by Norma McCorvey and "The Atonement Child" by Francine Rivers. Those books are much easier to read and get the point across just as good.
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Belongs in the pro-life canon,
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This review is from: The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Paperback)
Bernard Nathanson's "Hand Of God" is actually two books instead of one. First, we witness the journey of a man from cynical atheism to a new faith and the redemption that comes with it. Then, we enjoy an excellent pro-life apologetic from a man who is intimately familiar with both sides of the story. If you really want to understand the abortion debate, this book and Randy Alcorn's "Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments" are two of the essentials.
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