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The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict » Read Now
by Suzanne Staggenborg. 240 pgs.

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In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to win...
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In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to win their cause--the legalization of abortion in 1973--and argues that professional leadership and formal organizational structures, together with threats from the anti-abortion movement and grass-roots support, enabled the pro-choice movement to remain an active force even after their primary goal had been achieved.
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From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement (Includes discussion of the pro-choice movement in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Marlene Gerber Fried. 317 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...policy -- United States. 3. Pro-choice movement -- United States. 4. Womens...response and politics of the pro-choice movement. No matter how we try to...articulating our...
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Roe and the New Frontier, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy » Read Now
by Lisa Shaw Roy. 45 pgs.

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...this premise, (94) but the pro-choice movement has not relied solely on the...Leslie Cannold criticizes the pro-choice movement for its focus on individual...similarly...
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Organizational and Environmental Influences on the Development of the Pro-Choice Movement, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Suzanne Staggenborg. 37 pgs.

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...on the Development of the Pro-Choice Movement * SUZANNE STAGGENBORG...13 single- and multi-issue pro-choice movement organizations are used to...SMO participation in the "...
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The Ethics of Abortion: Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice » Read Now
by Robert M. Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum. 272 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

When The Ethics of Abortion first appeared, this powerful collection of essays gained instant recognition as one of the first attempts to present both sides of the abortion debate in the words of leading proponents. Now, after two major Supreme Court cases, intense political wrangling, and heavy...
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When The Ethics of Abortion first appeared, this powerful collection of essays gained instant recognition as one of the first attempts to present both sides of the abortion debate in the words of leading proponents. Now, after two major Supreme Court cases, intense political wrangling, and heavy media coverage of often violent public demonstrations, the editors have updated and revised this groundbreaking book by adding thirteen new selections and retaining many popular selections from the previous edition. Comprehensive and balanced, this popular volume in Prometheus's "Contemporary Issues" series offers nineteen essays and three excerpts from the high court's opinions in Roe v. Wade, which changed the face of abortion law for all time; Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989), which regulated the use of public facilities for abortions; and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), which imposed a waiting period and permitted parental notification. This provocative anthology covers such compelling issues as the pre-Roe abortion period in American history, abortion and the Constitution, abortion and feminism, abortion and Christianity, as well as the fundamental moral issues.
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Abortion & Dialogue: Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and American Law » Read Now
by Ruth Colker. 158 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to a moderate pro-choice position on abortion...womens liberation movement. I have omitted...observations about the pro-choice and pro-life movements: Although I...
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Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion: Constitutional Theory and Public Policy » Read Now
by James R. Bowers. 144 pgs.

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Bowers argues that, when correctly interpreted and applied, the Constitution and the theory of liberty on which it is based require government to reject the conventional pro-choice and anti-abortion perspectives as too extreme and incomplete. Instead, this book sets forth a position that government...
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Bowers argues that, when correctly interpreted and applied, the Constitution and the theory of liberty on which it is based require government to reject the conventional pro-choice and anti-abortion perspectives as too extreme and incomplete. Instead, this book sets forth a position that government is constitutionally obligated to approach abortion policy from a middle perspective. Relying on a jurisprudence of original theory, Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion forcefully asserts that government is constitutionally constrained to formulate abortion policy that is at once pro-choice and anti-abortion. In so arguing, this book walks readers through this constitutionally mandated middle position by introducing them to the liberal teachings of John Locke that were so influential to the framers of the Constitution and by applying this political theory to the major issues of the abortion controversy--including the individual liberty interest in the abortion decision, minors and abortions, the liberty interest of the fetal-being, and the Freedom of Choice Act.
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Pro-Life, Pro-Choice: Can We Talk?, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by Frederica Mathewes-Green. 3 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...gaining personal insights and a conviction that "the pro-choice movement needs a broader agenda," Isaacson-Jones says, "I...help and funding were refused by both pro-life...
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No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes » Read Now
by Karen O'Connor. 223 pgs.

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Examining key court cases, institutions, dramatic events, and public opinion, O'Connor highlights the dilemma of how a polity attempts to make decisions about issues on which agreement or compromise is unlikely.
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Rethinking Abortion: Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics » Read Now
by Mark A. Graber. 260 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice -- abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced. Graber compares the philosophical, constitutional, and...
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Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice -- abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced. Graber compares the philosophical, constitutional, and democratic merits of the two systems of abortion regulation in the twentieth century: pre-Roe v. Wade statutory prohibitions on abortion and Roe's ban on significant state interference with the market for safe abortion services. He demonstrates that before Roe, pro-life measures were selectively and erratically administered, thereby subverting our constitutional right of equal justice under law. Claiming that these measures would be similarly administered if reinstated, the author seeks to increase support for keeping abortion legal, even among those who have reservations about its morality.
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No Higher Court: Contemporary Feminism and the Right to Abortion » Read Now
by Germain Kopaczynski. 272 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

This book traces the roots of the contemporary abortion debate in the tradition of existential philosophy of the Sartrian type by investigating the work of four feminist writers on abortion--each with a specific focus: Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Daly, Carol Gilligan, and Beverly Wildung Harrison.nbsp;...
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This book traces the roots of the contemporary abortion debate in the tradition of existential philosophy of the Sartrian type by investigating the work of four feminist writers on abortion--each with a specific focus: Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Daly, Carol Gilligan, and Beverly Wildung Harrison.nbsp; No Higher Court attempts to envisage a pro-life feminism that is able to provide a "new world for women without abortion as its linchpin and bedrock."
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Women's Voices as Evidence: Personal Testimony Is Pro-Choice Films, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Barbara A. Pickering. 22 pgs.

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...rhetorical situation facing the pro-choice movement in the latter half of the...Decisions and Abortion Denied, the pro-choice movement recognizes, even...
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Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990s (Chap. 2 "Woman-Controlled Abortion: The Self-Help Health Movement") » Read Now
by Ninia Baehr. 67 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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.
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Will Choice Be Aborted?, in The American Prospect » Read Now
by Anna Greenberg. 4 pgs.

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...formulation of the pro-choice movement that abortion should...challenge for the pro-choice movement is how to take back...less emphatically pro-choice in their views...
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Women's Reproductive Rights, Modernization, and Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries: A Causal Model, in International Journal of Comparative Sociology » Read Now
by Vijayan K. Pillai, Guang-Zhen Wang. 2 pgs.

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...Womens reproductive rights, modernization, and family planning programs in developing countries: a causal model. by Vijayan K. Pillai , Guang-Zhen Wang...
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The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective » Read Now
by Donald T. Critchlow. 181 pgs.

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While there is extensive literature on the social history, politics, and legal aspects of birth control and abortion in the United States, the history of family planning as a policy remains to be fully recorded. This volume is intended to contribute to this history by examining birth control and...
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While there is extensive literature on the social history, politics, and legal aspects of birth control and abortion in the United States, the history of family planning as a policy remains to be fully recorded. This volume is intended to contribute to this history by examining birth control and abortion within a larger cultural, policy, and comparative framework. The essays contained in this volume represent a variety of perspectives and scholarly interests. In many instances the authors differ with each other as well as with the editor on fundamental points of historical interpretation. They all, however, share a commitment to study the politics of population within a scholarly framework that emphasizes the importance of policy history for understanding past and contemporary problems.
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