I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I'm grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book for review.

I would give this like a three and a half in reality; I think Stevenson has done some hard work to make this accessible, though the age range seems pretty wide (it's for 12+, but the language to me seems like it might be difficult for a twelve-year-old, even with the glossary at the back.)

I would say the limitations of this book are mostly the part of the choice to focus on abortion itself; though Stevenson does hit on reproductive justice at the end, and questions of sterilization are peppered throughout, the history she's able to tell is one that is fairly white. Supplementing this with works that focus more on reproductive justice, especially organizing around maybe Black Lives Matter and reproductive justice, might be useful.

(I also wish, selfishly, that the references were maybe more direct, especially for statistics. The numbers around people who can get pregnant who have died from botched abortions strike me as difficult to count, and that she could point me to more studies about where she got that information.)

She has done a good job of not staying too US or even US/Canada focused, though, and I really appreciated the chapter about the global fight for abortion. Similarly, the sections about young activists I think really have the potential to inspire youth who read the book. I would definitely recommend this book to parents with a younger teen, albeit with that supplemental material to make sure they have more information about reproductive justice than what Stevenson is able to provide here.

(Also I bet the art is going to be AMAZING in color; because my copy was an ARC, the art was in black and white which is kind of a bummer, but I'm sure it'll look great; it looked pretty good in black and white!)