Product Description: Merle Hoffman's life story is riveting. A former classical pianist, a self-made millionaire, and a feminist who found her life's work providing abortions, she has been a fearless crusader for women's right to choose.Over the years, Hoffman has used her entrepreneurial spirit to build one of the most comprehensive women's medical centers in the country...read more

Product Description: An impassioned argument for reproductive rightsIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing their agenda. But after Roe v. Wade, their determination to develop a respectable, nonconfrontational movement encouraged many of them to use the word choice--an easier concept for people weary of various rights movements...read more

Product Description: With a new preface by the author. In the tradition of Backlash and The Morning After, and in a political climate where Roe v. Wade is in serious jeopardy, a young activist reveals that the Pro-Life Movement's real agenda is a war on contraception, family planning, and sexual freedom...read more

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, and the personal experiences of pro-choice individuals. Original.

Argues that the fundamentalist movement to end abortion actually does the opposite since this 'anti-sex' Christian right campaign also includes opposition to birth control, sex education, and the over-the-counter sale of 'Plan B,' an emergency contraceptive pill.

Product Description: While the disagreements on abortion date to the beginning of our country, most of its public debate has taken place during the 20th century. Herring examines the issue from the debate's origin to its current state and expected future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Stories about abortion provide a rich ground for looking at the relationship between narrative, experience, and meaning because in many ways abortion has come to be a defining issue for American culture―one that touches on the value we attribute to human life, liberty, and freedom...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

First published a decade ago, a collection of testimonials from women denied access to legal abortion shares the stories of teenagers, college students, and young mothers and offers a passionate argument for access to safe, legal abortions. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by George Grant (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at changing public attitudes toward the abortion issue, and analyzes the rhetoric used to support both positions

In the 1960s a movement led by family planning activists and feminists emerged to challenge state anti-abortion laws, resulting in the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the U.S. Using interviews with past and present activists and historical records of movement organizations, this book traces the development of the "pro-choice" movement from its origins through the 1980s. The author shows how a small group of activists was able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to legalize abortion. Staggenborg argues that professional leadership and formalized organizational structures, together with threats from the anti-abortion movement, enabled the pro-choice movement to remain mobilized following legalization of abortion in 1973 and that these developments also facilitated grass-roots participation in the movement. This book will have particular significance for political sociologists, researchers, students, and others interested in women's studies and the abortion issue.

Provides a podium for the many well-known women who have shared their experiences with abortion, exploring their personal views from the days before Roe v. Wade to the present

Draws on interviews with women who have had abortions and with abortion providers to explore the abortion decision making process as a positive, life-enhancing experience (view table of contents)

Provides ethical, political, social, and medical information on the issue of abortion intended to represent both the pro-life and pro-choice points of view

A look at the people and politics involved in the abortion debate describes the emotionally draining days of besieged clinic staffers, the police officers assigned to the clinic beat, the patients, and the pro-choice and anti-abortion groups

Traces the history of the American controversy over abortion in the courts, the churches, the political system, pressure groups, and the family, and assesses the current status of the debate

Product Description: This anthology argues for an expansion of the single-issue abortion-rights movement into a multi-cultural feminist movement.

Highlights both sides of the controversial abortion debate, with presentation of the ethical, political and legal views espoused by the pro-choice movement and the anti-abortion camp.

Product Description: Presents stories of the Society for Humane Abortion--otherwise known as the Jane Collective--and draws political lessons about their program, success, and cooptation that are relevant to the agendas of abortion-rights groups today...read more

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