Hey, it's Amper's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Abortion is one of the major issues of this

upcoming election. The Harris campaign has made it a top priority to say that they will defend abortion

rights should they win. And President Trump, who appointed the Supreme Court justices who overturned

Roe v. Wade, is now kind of hemming and hawing at the

issue. But electoral politics aside, the discourse around it reminded me of a novel from last year

titled The Stories We Cannot Tell. It's about these two women on very different pregnancy journeys,

and a lot of the book is about dealing with the things we cannot control.

Author Leslie Rasmussen spoke with the empress of the Faddle when it came out about what makes pregnancy and abortion so difficult to talk about.

That's coming up.

Pregnancy can be the start of a journey filled with many difficult decisions and And some people suffer with the pain and sometimes the shame and silence

as they navigate what's best for them in their fetus,

including the possibility of having to terminate a pregnancy.

A new novel out this month is about those decisions,

told through the eyes of two women named Rachel and Katie.

One is desperate to

start a family but is struggling to stay pregnant. The other finds herself pregnant by accident.

The stories we cannot tell is the title of Leslie Rasmussen's book out this month. I started

by asking her what inspired this story. Over 25 years ago, I was trying to get pregnant and I had so many issues

with miscarriages and getting pregnant. I was looking for somebody to talk to about it. And there

wasn't the internet. And there wasn't a lot of places to go. And eventually I found this organization called Resolve. And through it,

I met a woman, and we exchanged emails, and we went through this whole thing together.

I never honestly thought about writing a book about any of this until, like, during COVID,

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