Dr. Willie Parker's Critical Reads
Dr. Willie Parker sits on the board of institutions at the forefront of the fight for reproductive justice, including as the chair-elect of the board of Physicians for Reproductive Health. He is the recipient of Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award, an honor also bestowed upon Hillary Clinton and Jane Fonda, and appeared on Ebony’s Power 100 list. He has been featured widely for his work, including in Slate, Jezebel, Cosmopolitan, NPR’s Morning Edition, Salon, and more. While a fascinating profile on Dr. Parker in Esquire sparked national interest in 2014, he is now the subject of Trapped (Trilogy Films), a documentary about the legal battle to keep abortion clinics in the South open.
Ministers of a Higher Law: The Story of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion by Joshua D. Wolff (1988). Available online here.
“The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker” by John H. Richardson. Available online here.
Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances by Tom Davis (Rutgers University Press, 2005)
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon.
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