Eyal Press has written a book about the anti-choice reign of terror against abortion providers. He will be reading from the book, which is entitled “Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City and the Conflict that Divided America,” at Valencia Street Books (569 Valencia St. in SF) on Tuesday, April 25th at 6:30pm.

In 1973, Press and his family moved from Israel to Buffalo, where his father, Shalom, had accepted a three-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology. They arrived only three weeks after the Supreme Court had handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade. In the next three decades, they saw protesters outside their home, mock funerals at Shalom Press’s office and a 1998 threat on his life, which came shortly after his colleague was killed by James Kopp. The shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian haunted Eyal, now a journalist, and compelled him to understand why the abortion conflict has sparked such passion and fierce moral convictions on both sides of the issue. In "Absolute Convictions," Press weaves together details of his father’s experience as an obstetrician with firsthand accounts and interviews with the protesters who were arrested outside his father’s office, patients who braved the gauntlet of demonstrators, and politicians on both sides.

Read more about Eyal Press and the book | Eyal Press's writings in The Nation | Event Sponsor BACORR