29 books (2 pages) in this category
Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe
by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal & Lorena Anton
<p>Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how ...
ISBN: 9781785334283
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eBookWomen's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy
by Ellen L.K. Toronto, Joann Ponder, Kristin Davisson & others
<p>Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women’s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has ...
ISBN: 9781315532554
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eBookAbortion and the Private Practice of Medicine
by Jonathan B. Imber
<p>Originally published in 1986, Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B. Imber spent two years observing and interviewing all ...
ISBN: 9781351534307
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eBookAbortion in the United States: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition
by Dorothy E. McBride & Jennifer L. Keys
<p>According to the CDC, more than 660,000 legal abortions were performed in the United States in 2013, yet despite these numbers, or perhaps because of them, the abortion war rages on in state legislatures, in Congress, and in court rooms. This
ISBN: 9781440853371
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eBookAbortion Regret: The New Attack on Reproductive Freedom
by J. Shoshanna Ehrlich & Alesha E. Doan
<p><em>Abortion Regret</em> explores the emergence and consolidation of the antiabortion movement's paternalistic efforts to "protect" women from abortion regret. It begins by examining the 19th-century physician's campaign to ...
ISBN: 9781440839856
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eBookTerminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First Century America
by Carol Sanger
<p>New medical technologies, women’s willingness to talk online and off, and tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent, Carol Sanger writes, women’s decisions about ...
ISBN: 9780674977303
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eBookby Mary Ziegler
<p>In the decade after the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion, advocates on both sides sought common ground. But as pro-abortion and anti-abortion positions hardened over time into pro-choice and pro-life, the myth was born that <em>Roe v. ...
ISBN: 9780674286283
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eBookBetween Families and Frankenstein
The Politics of Egg Donation in the United States
by Erin Heidt-Forsythe
<p>In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donors—disadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class. Yet cultural ...
ISBN: 9780520970434
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eBookby Nancy Bell
<p data-version="1.1">This definitive guide gives you the facts you need to make important decisions about birth control and side effects, birth control and migraine, male birth control, natural birth control, different forms of birth control, ...
ISBN: 9781516331581
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eBookby John Trotter
<p>When plotted against time, human population is best represented by a J curve, an otherwise orderly line which takes a sudden leap upward. If bacterial counts in a baby followed a J curve, it would cause despair. If the population of fruit ...
ISBN: 9781543919882
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eBookCasting Light on Children, Conception, & Contraception
by Melissa McVeda RN AE-C
<p>Ive heard that some birth controls can cause abortions. Is that actually true?</p> <p>What about children - God mentions them in the Bible, but what does He really think of them?</p> <p>Does God even care if I have kids?</p> <p>Join ...
ISBN: 9781490888712
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eBookChina's Low Birth Rate and the Development of Population
by Guo Zhigang, Wang Feng & Cai Yong
<p>As the most populous country in the world, China’s demographic challenges have always been too many people for ecological system, resources, and the environment. However, by the early 1990s, fertility rate in China had dropped below the ...
ISBN: 9781351612937
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eBookDispatches from the Abortion Wars
The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us
by Carole Joffe
<p><strong>Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access</strong><br /> ** **<br /> More than thirty-five years after women won the right to ...
ISBN: 9780807035030
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eBookby Thomas D'Agnes
<p>In Thailand, a condom is called a "Mechai". Mechai Viravaidya, Thailand's Condom King, has used this most anatomically suggestive contraceptive device to turn the conventional family planning establishment on its head. First came condom ...
ISBN: 9786167817385
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eBookUS Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime
by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
<p>In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation--both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have ...
ISBN: 9780252051197
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eBookby Robert Stetson
<p>What are the origins of mankind? Does anyone really know? There is more than just compelling evidence. There is proof that we are the product of genetic engineering. We were made in the likeness of another being. Some call it God and some ...
ISBN: 9781311522184
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eBookThe Abortion Trail and the Making of a London-Irish Underground, 1980-2000
by Ann Rossiter
<p>Every year, large numbers of abortion seekers from Northern Ireland and the Republic travel to clinics on the British mainland to seek a safe and legal abortion denied them on their own turf. They come and go in secret, like being ‘on the ...
ISBN: 9781543926392
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eBookby Duane L. Ostler
<p>Arguments in favor of abortion are humorously exposed as illogical, by way of compelling (but rather unusual) examples, logical reasoning and historical/legal research. Justifications for abortion which are shot down in this volume are: the ...
ISBN: 9780463331613
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eBookby Rochelle Padzensky
<p>Seventeen year old Ellen Gordon finds herself pregnant from her love affair with Kenny Johnson. Since abortion is illegal in the 1950’s, Kenny arranges for Ellen to have a back alley abortion. Horrified, Ellen confides in her parents and is ...
ISBN: 9780463456163
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eBookSociety Has Two Choices: The Baby Lives or the Baby Dies
by J.R. Thompson
<p>This book samples definitions, surveys, statistics, and laws related to abortion in America. The overarching theme is that the existence of legal abortions in the U.S. results in the deaths of discrete human beings and requires the ...
ISBN: 9781543969160
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