Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom - Paperback

by Pam Houston (Author)

Without Exception is an unflinching call for freedom by way of abortion rights

"A story told with honesty. I thank Pam Houston for this timely and timeless book"

--CAMILLE T. DUNGY, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Written with equal parts candor and lyricism, Pam Houston illuminates the interconnected histories of abortion in the United States and in her own life during the decades when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. Houston guides us through the shifting landscapes of politics, the law, and self-determination in a country where access to medical care and the power to determine your own destiny are increasingly--and once again--dependent on geography and circumstance.

Author Biography

Pam Houston is the author of the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and the essay collection A Little More About Me. Houston teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing MFA program, is a Professor of English at UC Davis, and cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at nine thousand feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.