{"id":6894,"date":"2006-06-28T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/surprise-child.html"},"modified":"2006-06-28T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:44:10","slug":"surprise-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/surprise-child.html","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Andrusko of National Right to Life News writes about a new book:<\/p>\n

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The book is Surprise Child: Finding Hope in Unexpected Pregnancy<\/em>, by Leslie Leyland Fields. In all the hundreds of related books I’ve read, never have I encountered a more telling, moving, or compelling account of what women face when they encounter an unplanned pregnancy. Not only is Fields a terrific writer, she uses her own two pregnancies in her forties as a jumping off point to talk with more than 25 women of all ages about pregnancies that came \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unbidden. All faced enormous difficulties. All chose life. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the website for the book, which includes the can’t-stop-reading bio of Leslie Fields, the author:<\/a><\/p>\n

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From 1980-1981, Leslie and Duncan spent a year backpacking through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. They embarked on a second trip in 1986, starting in the Middle East on the back of an expedition truck, through Egypt, Sudan, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. <\/em><\/p>\n

After graduate school, Leslie and Duncan created a homestead on an uninhabited island, eighty miles from the town of Kodiak. They have fished commercially with extended family on Harvester Island each summer since 1979 in a salmon fishing operation. During the winter, Leslie teaches in Seattle Pacific University\u2019s Master of Fine Arts Program and works as an adjunct professor at University of Alaska, Kodiak.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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