Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Author: Katha Pollitt
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0312620543

Argues that abortion is a common part of a woman's reproductive life and should not be vilified, but instead accepted as a moral right that can be a force for social good.

The Abortionist

The Abortionist
Author: Rickie Solinger
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520322827

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition places abortion politics in the context of reproductive justice today and explains why abortion has been—and remains—a political flashpoint in the United States. Before Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger tells the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, from 1918 to 1968, to demonstrate how the law, not back‐alley practitioners, endangered women’s lives in the years before legalized abortion. Women from all walks of life came to Barnett, who worked in a proper office, undisturbed by legal authorities, and never lost a patient. But in the illegal era following World War II, Barnett and other practitioners were hounded by police and became targets for politicians; women seeking abortions were forced to turn to syndicates run by racketeers or to use self‐induced methods that often ended in injury or death. This new edition places abortion politics in the context of reproductive justice today. Despite the change in women’s status since Barnett’s time, key cultural and political meanings of abortion have endured. Opponents of Roe v. Wade continue their efforts to recriminalize abortion and reestablish an inexorable relationship between biology and destiny. The Abortionist is an instructive reminder that legal abortion facilitated women’s status as full members of society. Barnett’s story clarifies the relationship of legal abortion to human dignity and shows why preserving and extending Roe v. Wade ensures women’s freedom to decide for themselves what is best for their health.

Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice

Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
Author: Kathy Rudy
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 1997-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807004278

Entering the moral worlds of Catholicism, the evangelical Protestantism of the Operation Rescue movement, feminism, and the classical liberalism expressed in modern medicine, Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice brilliantly illuminates the little-understood religious and philosophical aspects of the abortion issue. Rudy reveals how each community's beliefs about abortion are connected to its deeply held values and concerns, and offers an alternative that would obviate the unproductive, divisive, and sometimes violent abortion debate we have today.

Without Exception

Without Exception
Author: Pam Houston
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

An unflinching call for freedom by way of abortion rights. “A story told with honesty. I thank Pam Houston for this timely and timeless book" —CAMILLE T. DUNGY, Soil Pam Houston tells the story of how her personal and professional life was powered by access to abortion. Alongside her own account, Houston examines the legal history of abortion and shines a bright light on the impact of reproductive rights on all American women during the days Roe v. Wade was the law of the land.

Abortion & Dialogue

Abortion & Dialogue
Author: Ruth Colker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 179
Release: 1992
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780253313935

Discusses abortion from a feminist-theological perspective and explores weaknesses in pro-life and pro-choice arguments, including the failure of both sides to address the larger issue of reproductive health

Choices

Choices
Author: Merle Hoffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1510776958

"Merle Hoffman has always known that in a democracy, we each have decision-making power over the fate of our own bodies. She is a national hero for us all.” ​—Gloria Steinem In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and women’s healthcare offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortion and women's right to choose. Merle Hoffman has been at the forefront of the reproductive freedom movement since the 1970s. Three years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion through Roe v. Wade, she helped to establish one of the United States’ first abortion centers in Flushing, Queens, and later went on to found Choices, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive women’s medical facilities. For the last five decades, Hoffman has been a steadfast warrior and fierce advocate for every woman’s right to choose when and whether or not to be a mother. Now, amidst the aftermath of the Dobbs Decision, Hoffman has carefully compiled her decades of analysis, research, and experience into a tour de force manifesto that sheds light on the catastrophic repercussions of overturning Roe, and what we must do moving forward to ensure the safety and legality of abortion nationally. In Choices, Hoffman expresses her views on where we are and what lies ahead. She covers topics ranging from: revamping the healthcare system to support women’s rights; combatting rising authoritarianism; the weaponization of religion; fighting the antis; practicing courage; sabotage from within the movement; and activating the next generation in the fight for reproductive justice.

The Abortion Rights Movement

The Abortion Rights Movement
Author: Meghan Powers
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Discusses the pro-choice movement in the United States.

From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom

From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom
Author: Marlene Gerber Fried
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1990
Genre: Abortion
ISBN: 9780896083875

This anthology argues for an expansion of the single-issue abortion-rights movement into a multi-cultural feminist movement in the United States.

Tearing Us Apart

Tearing Us Apart
Author: Ryan T. Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1684513545

The political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson, bestselling author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, teams up with the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis to expose the catastrophic failure—social, political, legal, and personal—of legalized abortion. Hope in the Ruins of Roe Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion law to the democratic process, a powerful new book reframes the coming debate: Our fifty-year experiment with unlimited abortion has harmed everyone—even its most passionate proponents. Women, men, families, the law, politics, medicine, the media—and, of course, children (born and unborn)—have all been brutalized by the culture of death fostered by Roe v. Wade. Abortion hollows out marriage and the family. It undermines the rule of law and corrupts our political system. It turns healers into executioners and “women’s health” into a euphemism for extermination. Ryan T. Anderson, a compelling and reasoned voice in our most contentious cultural debates, and the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis expose the false promises of the abortion movement and explain why it has made everything worse. Five decades after Roe, everyone has an opinion about abortion. But after reading Tearing Us Apart, no one will think about it in the same way.

Abortion and Dialogue

Abortion and Dialogue
Author: Ruth Colker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1992-09-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780253116659

"The issues she takes on are crucial -- not solely the subject areas of reproductive rights and law, or public policy lenses and judicial impact in women's and children's lives, but also the more difficult and fundamental questions of how these 'hot topics' can be approached so as to make the most of the good will of all and the force of free discussion for social learning.... she brings a strong, evolving and distinctive perspective to the discussion." -- Emily Fowler Hartigan In Abortion and Dialogue, Ruth Colker argues that the state falsely views the woman and the fetus as having conflicting needs when it intervenes in decisions regarding preganancies. Colker's feminist-theological perspective on reproductive health issues encourages both pro-choice and pro-life advocates to consider how the value of life is implicated in discussions of reproduction. Colker argues that theology can contribute to our understanding if we apply the concepts of love, compassion, and wisdom to problems identified by feminist theory and to actual concrete situations: the impact of abortion regulations on poor female adolescents; the judicial treatment of abortion regulations; state intervention into women's decision-making during pregnancies carried to term. Colker concludes by examining effective and respectful family-planning strategies that truly help women in making reproductive choices.