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The Cost of "Choice": Women Evalute the Impact of Abortion
by Jean Bethk Elshtain

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Captures the moral, legal, medical and political complexities surrounding abortion....
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
by Ann Fessler

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This powerful revelation uncovers the astonishing, untold history of the million-and-a-half women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before "Roe v. Wade."...
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Protecting the Right to Choose
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Protecting the Right to Choose
by Kate Michelman

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From the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America comes a politically impassioned, thought-provoking, and timely narrative about a womans constitutional right to shape her own life. Catalyzed by a pre"Roe v. Wade" abortion, which required the consent...
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Natural Rights and the Right to Choose
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Natural Rights and the Right to Choose
by Hadley Arkes

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Hadley Arkes argues that the ???right to abortion??? has shifted the American political class away from the doctrine of natural rights held by the Founders....
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
by Ellen Chesler

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Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights. Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's...
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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Sex, Virtue, and the Way We Live Now
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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Sex, Virtue, and the Way We Live Now
by Cristina Page

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A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth...
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Absolute Convictions : My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America (06 Edition)
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Absolute Convictions : My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America (06 Edition)
by Eyal Press

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In 1998, one of only two doctors in Buffalo, New York, who performed abortions was shot dead by a radical antiabortion activist. The son of the surviving doctor now presents a gripping account of a family and a city caught in the crossfire of moral...
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Life on the Line
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Life on the Line
by Faye Wattleton

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As a nurse in 1967, she witnessed firsthand the shame and suffering of women in the age of illegal abortion. As leader of the nation's most influential reproductive-rights organization from 1978 to 1992, she would face fierce opposition -- and be divided...
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The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
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The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
by Gloria Feldt

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Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back...
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The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law
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The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law
by Rickie Solinger

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Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger uses the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, between 1918 and 1968 to demonstrate that it was the law, not...
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The Human Drama of Abortion: A Global Search for Consensus
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The Human Drama of Abortion: A Global Search for Consensus
by Anibal Faundes

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Deeply touched by the tragedies of botched abortions that they witnessed as medical students and young physicians in Chile in the 1970s and later around the world, the authors have attempted in their professional lives and now in this book to establish a...
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When Sex Counts: Making Babies and Making Law
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When Sex Counts: Making Babies and Making Law
by Sherry Colb

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From a decidedly left-of-center perspective, Making Babies and Making Law discusses how law and public policy grapple with differences between the genders while simultaneously struggling to maintain a commitment to equal treatment under the law....
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What Roe v.. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision
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What Roe v.. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision
by Jack M. Balkin

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View the Table of Contents.   Read the Introduction. "Brings together some of America's brightest legal minds to make the best arguments available for and against the constitutional right to abortion. An exceptional volume and essential...
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Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice
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Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice
by Krista Jacob

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Addresses a spectrum of personal and social influences affecting legalized abortion today, sharing a diverse range of pro-choice writings about such topics as the moral ambiguities of pro-life supporters, the inherent dangers of restricting medical care,...
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Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century
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Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century
by Alexander Sanger

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Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger...
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Roe V. Wade
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Roe V. Wade
by Marian Faux

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It is difficult to keep in mind that the era of illegal abortions ended only 27 years ago. This history of the Supreme Court decision documents both the progress of the case through the highest court in the land, and the stories of women who were...
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A Private Matter: Ru 486 and the Abortion Crisis
by Lawrence Lader

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Lader spotlights the struggle for abortion rights, discusses the brutal clinic murders in Pensacola and Boston, and argues that RU 486 could markedly reduce clinical abortions by making the termination of a pregnancy a "private matter"....
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Abortion Myth Feminism Morality & the Ha
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Abortion Myth Feminism Morality & the Ha
by Leslie Cannold



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Pandora's Box (New Feminist Perspective)
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Pandora's Box (New Feminist Perspective)
by Nancy Lublin

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Feminists have long been divided on the issues raised by reproductive technologies. Are contraception, assisted conception, and antenatal intervention a source of liberation? Should they be rejected as anti-natural and anti-women? Or are these types of...
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Pregnant by Mistake: The Stories of Seventeen Women
by Katrina Maxtone-graham



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