Links to Organizations that Oppose Abortion Rights
Selected Books on Abortion
After Roe by
Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade that followed. The grassroots activists who shaped the discussion after Roe, Mary Ziegler shows, were far more fluid and diverse than the partisans dominating the debate today. In the early years after the decision, advocates on either side of the abortion battle sought common ground on issues from pregnancy discrimination to fetal research. Drawing on archives and more than 100 interviews with key participants, Ziegler's revelations complicate the view that abortion rights proponents were insensitive to larger questions of racial and class injustice, and expose as caricature the idea that abortion opponents were inherently antifeminist. But over time, "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion" positions hardened into "pro-choice" and "pro-life" categories in response to political pressures and compromises. This increasingly contentious back-and-forth produced the interpretation now taken for granted--that Roe was primarily a ruling on a woman's right to choose. Peering beneath the surface of social-movement struggles in the 1970s, After Roe reveals how actors on the left and the right have today made Roe a symbol for a spectrum of fervently held political beliefs.
Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780674286269Publication Date: 2015
Abortion and the Christian tradition :a pro-choice theological ethic by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2019
Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States by Call Number: KF3771.Z545 2022 Main, 3rd floorISBN: 9781032105628Publication Date: 2022
Policing the Womb by
Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women's rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women's bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant.
Call Number: KF3760 .G65 2020 Main, 3rd floorISBN: 9781107030176Publication Date: 2020
The Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Movement by
There is more to the pro-life movement than campaigning against abortion. That, at least, is the logic behind a large and growing network of pro-life pregnancy centers offering "help" to pregnant women. As these centers face increasing scrutiny, this book offers the first social-scientific study of the pro-life pregnancy help movement. The work being performed at pro-life pregnancy centers, maternity homes, and other charitable agencies is, Laura S. Hussey suggests, distinguished by several strategic features: it is directed at non-state targets, operates in largely privatized venues, employs service provision as its primary tactic, and aims to address causes popularly associated with its countermovement such as women's (including poor women's) wellbeing and empowerment. The motives and nature of the services such pregnancy centers deliver have become the subjects of competing political narratives--but, until now, very little empirical research. A rich, mixed-method study including data from two original national surveys and extensive interviews, Hussey's book adjudicates these opposing views even as it provides a measured look at the identity, work, history, and impact of pro-life pregnancy centers and related service providers, as well as their relations with the larger American antiabortion movement. To what extent is pro-life pregnancy help work primarily geared to serving women versus "saving babies?" Pursued in these pages, the answer has broad implications for the wider study of social action and the pro-life movement, and for the future of the American abortion conflict.
Call Number: HQ767.5.U5 H87 2020 Main, 1st floorISBN: 9780700629008Publication Date: 2020
Other Documents
- Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that shaped the abortion debate before the Supreme Court’s ruling / by Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. SiegelA collection of primary source documents on abortion.
Statements by Professional Associations
General Research on Abortion and Reproductive Rights
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- Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that shaped the abortion debate before the Supreme Court’s ruling / by Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. SiegelA collection of primary source documents on abortion.