“I believe that as an abortion provider, I am doing God’s work,” Parker writes in his new memoir, “Life’s Work.” “I am protecting<br />women’s rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.”<br />Since childhood, Parker had been taught that abortion was wrong, and for the first half of his career as an OB-GYN, he refused to perform abortions.<br />Meet Dr. Willie Parker, a Southern Christian Abortion Provider -<br />No issue in America is more toxic than abortion, and that’s partly because it is today so closely associated with religion.<br />Yet today it’s taken as self-evident among conservative Christians<br />that life begins at fertilization — without realizing that this would have astonished many Christians throughout the ages.<br />Parker accepts that a fetus is alive — but says that life doesn’t begin at conception, because an egg is alive as well, and so is a sperm.<br />Dr. Parker is black, feminist and driven by his Christian faith to provide abortions<br />in the South, where women seeking to terminate a pregnancy have few options.<br />“It is not a switch that turns on in an instant, like an electric light.”<br />Parker is outraged at the profusion of laws around the country chipping away at abortion rights, and he objects<br />that much of the critique of abortion is based on bad science — yet doctors are sometimes legally obliged to provide incorrect information to patients.
