Reproductive Rights
(see also Abortion, Anti-Abortion Movement, Sexual Freedom, & Sexual Repression)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
American Civil Liberties Union.
The Body Politic: National Pro-Choice News Report.
California Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL).
International Planned Parenthood Federation.
National Organization for Women (NOW).
Physicians for Reproductive Choice & Health.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights.
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) Assists women with funding for emergency contraception or safe & legal abortion.
In the Library: Articles
Richey, Warren. "Court upholds murder verdict in stillbirth case," Christian Science Monitor (10/7/03):2.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bandarage, Asoka. Women, Population & Global Crisis (London: Zed, 1997).
Dombrowski, Daniel A. Babies & Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases (Urbana: U. Illinois, 1997).
Donchin, Anne & Laura M. Purdy (eds.) Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
Gordon, Linda. Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Birth Control in America (rev. ed.; NY: Penguin, 1990).
__________. The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America (Urbana: U. Illinois, 2002).
Grossman, Atina. Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control & Abortion Reform, 1920-1950 (NY: Oxford, 1995).
Holmes, Helen Bequaert & Laura M. Purdy (eds.) Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics (Bloomington: Indiana U, 1992).
Mumford, Stephen D. The Pope & the New Apocalypse: The Holy War Against Family Planning (Research Triangle Park NC: Center for Research on Population & Security, 1986).
Petchesky, Rosalind & Karen Judd (eds.) Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives across Countries & Cultures (NY: Zed, 1998).
Purdy, Laura M. Reproducing Persons. Issues in Feminist Bioethics (Ithaca: Cornell, 1996).
Rapp, Reyna. Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis
in America (NY: Routledge, 2000).
Solinger, Ricky. Beggars & Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, & Welfare in the US (NY: Hill & Wang, 2001). Explores heavy cost to reproductive rights of shift in 80s to a middle-class rhetoric of "choice".
Strossen, Nadine. What Roe vs. Wade Should Have Said (NY: NYU, 2005).
Swomley, John M. Compulsory Pregnancy. The War Against American Women (Washington: Americans for Religious Liberty, 19??).
Ward, Martha Coonfield. Poor Women, Powerful Men: America's Great Experiment in Family Planning (Boulder: Westview, 1986).
Woliver, Laura R. The Political Geographies of Pregnancy (Urbana: U. Illinois, 2002).
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CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Caracas amor a muerte" [2000], dir. Gustavo Balza, ?m. Poignant story of teenage pregnancy, the search for an abortion, & moral debates it generates.
"The Fragile Promise of Choice" [1996], by Dorothy Fadiman, Daniel Meyers & Beth Seltzer, 57m. From Women Make Movies.