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655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
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Reports on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.
"Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously unseen trove--and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents...
42) Unpregnant
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310 pages ; 22 cm
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When seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke discovers she is pregnant, she enlists the help of high school misfit Bailey Butler to drive her over nine hundred miles to the closest abortion clinic.
Veronica Clarke is staring at a piece of plastic with two solid pink lines. With a college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make: an abortion. The only catch: the closest place to...
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217 pages ; 23 cm
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An abortion provider and Christian reproductive justice advocate draws from his personal journey and professional scientific training as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe, unequivocally, that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do. Dr. Willie Parker grew up in the Deep South, lived in a Christian household, and converted to an even more fundamentalist form of Christianity as a young man. But upon reading...
46) Plan A
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404 pages ; 22 cm
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Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
Ivy can't entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. Now, instead of spending the summer in her small Texas town working at the local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriend, Lorenzo, she's planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmother's house on the West Coast, where...
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A classic text for health activists and feminists interested in the complexities of how drugs are developed, marketed, and sold to women around the world, this book reviews the unusual history of the French abortion pill RU-486. Critical of the positive claims made for RU-486, it argues that its promotion is filled with myths and misconceptions. Scrutinizing the science and politics behind RU-486, this account examines how the pill benefits the...
48) Rebel Girls
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413 pages ; 22 cm
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"When it comes to being social, Athena Graves is far more comfortable creating a mixtape playlist than she is talking to cute boys -- or anyone, for that matter. Plus her staunchly feminist views and love of punk rock aren't exactly mainstream at St. Ann's, her conservative Catholic high school. Then a malicious rumor starts spreading through the halls ... a rumor that her popular, pretty, pro-life sister had an abortion over the summer. A rumor that...
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1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Not Funny Ha-Ha is a bold, slightly wry graphic novel illustrating the lives of two young women from different cultural, family, and financial backgrounds who go through two different abortions (medical and surgical). It does not address the events leading up to the pregnancy, or even the decision-making before choosing abortion as an option. It simply shows what happens when a woman goes through it, no questions asked. It follows them through the...
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269 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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In a series of letters to his unborn child, the author charts his grief, seeking solace in the natural world around him and describing both the pleasures of falling in love and the terrifying impossibility of losing someone.
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228 pages ; 22 cm
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On the very night Camille learns she got into a prestigious theater program, she also finds out she's pregnant. At her most vulnerable, Camille reaches out to Annabelle, a girl she only barely knows from the theater. Annabelle agrees to drive her wherever she needs to go; best friend Bea doesn't agree with Camille's decision, but decides to come with. Over the course of a thousand miles, friendships will be tested and dreams will be challenged. --...
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A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATION
Forty-years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion...
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What if the doctor who had saved your child's life from a previously hopeless terminal condition had never been born--could have been born, but was aborted? Would knowing that your child could have been saved change your perspective on abortion? In A Daughter's Lament, Grace almost loses her child, Piper, to just such an illness and learns the true value of every conceived child. Share Grace and Piper's story as they discover through a "dream doctor"...
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La lucha por el aborto en Chile no es nueva, no lo es en su historia de militancias ni como materia de salud pública, no es tampoco una reivindicación propia de las protestas de la última década ni exclusiva de la marea feminista que se ha esparcido por varios lugares del mundo y que en Argentina se ha teñido particularmente de verde, contagiándonos con la fuerza de sus pañuelos. Es probable, que la certeza de que la actual ley de aborto en...
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There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The problem is this story simply isn't true. Largely ambivalent about abortion until the late 1970s, evangelical leaders were first mobilized not by Roe v. Wade...
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Alternating journal entries chronicle the powerful fight for Mellie's right to choose after she becomes pregnant by rape.
"Mellie has always been the reliable friend, the good student, the doting daughter. But when an unspeakable act leads her to withdraw from everyone she loves, she is faced with a life-altering choice--a choice she must face alone. Lise stands up--and speaks out--for what she believes in. And when she notices Mellie acting strangely,...
57) Eck: A Romance
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Goleman Eck is an abortion survivor. Literally. As such, he is subject to other people's uses of him for political, religious, and media purposes. Some for whom he "doesn't look right" threaten his life. Others know Gole, as a lover or true friend. Whirling together the contemporary outrageous and the serio-comic, Robert Ready's Eck: A Romance is wholly new fiction, a quest for identity, purpose, love-even what it means to be alive.
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Pocas veces ha habido mayor afinidad entre un filósofo y un científico. Julián Marías conoce a Jérme Lejeune en 1980, y años después lo describe como "uno de los hombres que más se han esforzado por mostrar la significación inaceptable del aborto, cuya difusión, fomentada por unos y pasivamente recibida por otros, es a mi juicio lo más grave que ha sucedido en el siglo XX".
Este libro muestra cómo estos dos grandes humanistas supieron...
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El autor viene estudiando el fenómeno social del aborto desde hace años, y de ahí que el debate del consejo de ministros del Gobierno despertó de inmediato su interés.
Las páginas que siguen recogen el fruto de la reflexión del autor.
En un tema como el aborto resulta muy difícil la neutralidad y adelanto que toma posición a favor de la vida.
Sin embargo, intenta hacer un esfuerzo para comprender cómo pudo surgir y generalizarse la cultura...
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¿Se puede denunciar a la policía a una paciente que acude al hospital buscando ayuda médica en una emergencia (por ejemplo, con un aborto en curso) porque alguien entiende que esa paciente cometió un delito? No, dice la ley. No, ratificó la Corte Suprema. No, establecen los tratados internacionales a los que la Argentina reconoce rango constitucional. Sin embargo, como demuestra este libro con una contundencia que impacta, se hace.
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