Advancing Reproductive Choice

Advancing Reproductive Choice
Author: Elizabeth Maguire
Publisher: Mont Boron Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578733913

Liz Maguire chronicles her fascinating 45-year career dedicated to helping women and girls in developing countries make their own reproductive decisions freely and safely. In the 1990s, she served as the first woman director of the global family planning and reproductive health program of the U.S. Agency for International Development, followed by 16 years as CEO of the international non-profit, Ipas. The reader obtains an insider's view of the critical work of these organizations and learns about Maguire's rich and varied experiences in North and sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She highlights the challenges that remain in achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, now exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and calls on new generations of leaders to accelerate the fight for reproductive and social justice.Maguire also shares her adventures studying and travelling in Europe in her youth, living in France part-time over the last 35 years, and exploring other intriguing places. She gives the reader an appreciation of what is possible in life and leadership with passion, perseverance, compassion, optimism, and continuous learning.

The Turnaway Study

The Turnaway Study
Author: Diana Greene Foster
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1982141573

"Now with a new afterword by the author"--Back cover.

No Real Choice

No Real Choice
Author: Katrina Kimport
Publisher: Families in Focus
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781978817920

No real choice -- Policies, poverty, and the organization of abortion care -- Privileging the fetus -- Choosing irresponsibility and harm -- Fearing the experience of abortion -- Choosing a baby -- Toward reproductive autonomy.

Advancing Women's Health Through Medical Education

Advancing Women's Health Through Medical Education
Author: Uta Landy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1108879462

Neither legalization of abortion nor scientific and political advances in contraception and abortion ensure that training and research in family planning are routinely integrated into medical education. Without integration, subsequent generations of healthcare professionals are not prepared to incorporate evidence-based family planning into their practices, teaching, or research. Omission of this crucial component prevents the cultural and professional normalization of an often stigmatized and embattled aspect of women's health. Taking the successful US-based Ryan and Family Planning Fellowship programs as templates for training, teaching, and academic leadership, this book describes the integration of family planning and pregnancy termination into curricula with an international outlook. With an evidence- and systems-based approach, the book is a unique and practical guide to inspire and train the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice

Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice
Author: Kylie Baldwin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787564835

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book explores the experiences of some of the pioneering users of social egg freezing technology in the UK and the USA.

In Search of Common Ground on Abortion

In Search of Common Ground on Abortion
Author: Dr Justin Murray
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2014-03-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1472420489

This book brings together academics, legal practitioners and activists with a wide range of pro-choice, pro-life and other views to explore the possibilities for cultural, philosophical, moral and political common ground on the subjects of abortion and reproductive justice more generally. It aims to rethink polarized positions on sexuality, morality, religion and law, in relation to abortion, as a way of laying the groundwork for productive and collaborative dialogue. Edited by a leading figure on gender issues and emerging voices in the quest for reproductive justice - a broad concept that encompasses the interests of men, women and children alike - the contributions both search for 'common ground' between opposing positions in our struggles around abortion, and seek to bring balance to these contentious debates. The book will be valuable to anyone interested in law and society, gender and religious studies and philosophy and theory of law.

Undivided Rights

Undivided Rights
Author: Jael Silliman
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2016-04-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1608466647

Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice—on their own behalf. Undivided Rights presents a textured understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing the experiences, priorities, and activism of women of color in the foreground. Using historical research, original organizational case studies, and personal interviews, the authors illuminate how women of color have led the fight to control their own bodies and reproductive destinies. Undivided Rights shows how women of color—-starting within their own Latina, African American, Native American, and Asian American communities—have resisted coercion of their reproductive abilities. Projected against the backdrop of the mainstream pro-choice movement and radical right agendas, these dynamic case studies feature the groundbreaking work being done by health and reproductive rights organizations led by women-of-color. The book details how and why these women have defined and implemented expansive reproductive health agendas that reject legalistic remedies and seek instead to address the wider needs of their communities. It stresses the urgency for innovative strategies that push beyond the traditional base and goals of the mainstream pro-choice movement—strategies that are broadly inclusive while being specific, strategies that speak to all women by speaking to each woman. While the authors raise tough questions about inclusion, identity politics, and the future of women’s organizing, they also offer a way out of the limiting focus on "choice." Undivided Rights articulates a holistic vision for reproductive freedom. It refuses to allow our human rights to be divvied up and parceled out into isolated boxes that people are then forced to pick and choose among.

Population Policy and Women's Rights

Population Policy and Women's Rights
Author: Ruth Dixon-Mueller
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1993-03-30
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Presents a forceful argument for a more responsive approach to fertility limitation in developing countries--one that builds on women's concerns about their survival and security and strengthens women's rights. Ruth Dixon-Mueller reviews the history of the debate between feminists and the birth control movement, examines the forces affecting U.S. population policy on the domestic and international fronts, and documents the relationship between women's reproductive rights and their rights in other areas. --amazon.com

Children of Choice

Children of Choice
Author: John A. Robertson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1996-03-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780691036656

In this wide-ranging account of the reproductive technologies currently available, John Robertson goes to the heart of issues that confront increasing numbers of people - single individuals or couples, donors or surrogates, gays or heterosexuals - who seek to redefine family, parenthood, the experience of pregnancy, and life itself.

Radical Reproductive Justice

Radical Reproductive Justice
Author: Loretta Ross
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2017-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1936932040

Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding "reproductive rights" to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought migrating from the community into the academy. Radical Reproductive Justice assembles two decades’ of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, creators of the human rights-based “reproductive justice” framework to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary framework asserts a woman's right to have children, to not have children, and to parent and provide for the children they have. "The book is as revolutionary and revelatory as it is vast." —Rewire