Dr. Willie Parker | Life’s Work: From the Trenches, a Moral Argument for Choice
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In conversation with Dr. James Peterson, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. MSNBC Contributor
An outspoken Christian reproductive justice advocate, Dr. Willie Parker is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist who is one of the few abortion providers to women in Mississippi and Alabama. Chair-elect of the board of Physicians for Reproductive Health, winner of Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger award, and one of Ebony’s Power 100 list, he has been profiled in NPR’s Morning Edition, Esquire, and Slate, among other places. He is also the subject of the documentary film Trapped, a look at the legal battle to keep Southern abortion providers open. In Life’s Work, Parker illustrates the complex realities of abortion in America.
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