Enlightening and extremely timely, this book chronicles the history of abortion clinic escorts and how they've worked to protect women from exercising their right to healthcare AND keep them safe from networks of increasingly violent and harassing anti-abortion protestors. Rankin is an abortion rights activist who has worked as a volunteer clinic escort and has seen first-hand the violence and vitriol. Using extensive research and her own experiences, she presents the chaotic yet necessary work of these amazing volunteers.

Rankin's engaging prose reveals her passion for this work and a woman's right for bodily autonomy. Using a litany of historical facts, she also shines light on a surprising aspect of this work: How even after the FACE Act became law (The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act), local police still didn't protect abortion clinic entrances--and the women going into them--as well as they should have. This info is a sad testament to how still, in 2022, patriarchal structures govern issues that affect women, their lives, and their bodies.

All in all an absorbing and timely must-read.