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Drawing Pro-Life Lines, in First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life » Read Now
by Nathan Schlueter. 3 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Drawing pro-life lines by Nathan Schlueter In last falls presidential election pro-life voters were faced with a difficult moral...principle demand a vote for a marginally...
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The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective ("The Right to Life Movement: Sources, Development, and Strategies" begins on p. 128) » 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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The Right to Life Movement and Third Party Politics » Read Now
by Robert J. Spitzer. 172 pgs.

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Exhibits Preface Introduction Single-Issue Parties in American History A Party is Born: Abortion and the Right To Life Party Activists and Identifiers Party Decay, Party Renewal, and Hybrid Multi-Partyism Epilogue Appendixes Bibliography Index
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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

...SOME leaders of the pro-life movement have joined the advisory...in the Common Ground movement, Isaacson-Jones mentions...her friendship with pro-life activist Loretto...
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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
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Souls, Bodies, Spirits: The Drive to Abolish Abortion since 1973 » Read Now
by Kerry N. Jacoby. 234 pgs.

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Jacoby provides a comprehensive social history of the abortion abolition campaign from its beginnings following Roe v. Wade through the 1996 elections. She explores the abortion abolition effort historically, sociologically, theologically, and politically, arguing for a deep understanding of American abortion opponents.
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The Christian Right and the Pro-Life Movement: An Analysis of the Sources of Political Support, in Review of Religious Research » Read Now
by Clyde Wilcox. 10 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SOURCES...the Christian Right and the pro-life movement using data from a national...and Catholics...
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The America We Seek: A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern, in National Review » Read Now
by National Review. 5 pgs.

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...the principles on which the pro-life movement stands, to articulate a pro...itself --requires. 16. The pro-life movement must redouble its efforts to...abortion license...
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No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes (Includes discussion of the pro-life movement in multiple chapters) » 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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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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Defining the Abortion Debate, in ETC: A Review of General Semantics » Read Now
by Mary S. Alexander. 5 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...time, that is, tenses. The Pro-life movement lives in the future tense and...the present tense. For the Pro-life movement, in general, life happens in...is no coincidence...
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Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War (Includes discussion of the pro-life movement in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by James Risen, Judy L. Thomas. 432 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Timed to the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, Wrath of Angels is a very human story of the rise of the antiabortion movement, its critical role in the creation of the Religious Right, and the movement's ultimate descent into violence.
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Timed to the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, Wrath of Angels is a very human story of the rise of the antiabortion movement, its critical role in the creation of the Religious Right, and the movement's ultimate descent into violence.
People on both sides of the abortion issue are no longer as certain as they once were about the moral, ethical, and political issues involved. Now, this responsible and timely work sheds light on one of the most important American social protest movements of the 20th century.
Jim Risen, an investigative reporter in the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, and Judy Thomas, a reporter for the Kansas City Star, are widely acknowledged as leading journalistic experts on the antiabortion movement and are two of only a handful of reporters specializing in the abortion issue. From page one of their riveting book, these two brilliant writers capture all the drama of the movement and offer answers to those questions that have long shrouded the issue in heated controversy: Why did the Supreme Court decision generate a nationwide antiabortion movement? Why was the antiabortion movement transformed from a largely Catholic -- and easily ignored -- movement of mild protest into an angry movement of passionate Protestant fundamentalists who filled up the nation's jails as a result of their acts of civil disobedience? Why did the movement turn to violence?
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No Higher Court: Contemporary Feminism and the Right to Abortion (Chap. Six "Pro-Life Feminism") » Read Now
by Germain Kopaczynski. 247 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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