Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Abortion & Birth Control

Both sides in the debate agree that abortion is a miserable choice. How can we help women find Real Choices? This book examines resources and difficulties, and lets women who have had abortions talk about their reasons, and what could have made it possible to consider other choices.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues to this day. Picking up the story in the contentious decades that followed Roe, The Street Politics of Abortion is the first book to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front protests through the 1980s and 1990s, the most visible and contentious period in U.S....

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues to this day.

Picking up the story in the contentious decades that followed Roe, The Street Politics of Abortion is the first book to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front protests through the 1980s and 1990s, the most visible and contentious period in...

In earlier times, a woman knew she was pregnant when she experienced quickening - she felt movement within her. Today a woman relies on what she sees in a test result or a digital sonogram image to confirm her pregnancy. A private experience, once mediated by women themselves, has become a public experience interpreted and controlled by medical professionals. In this study, the author takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation of women's experience of pregnancy. She suggests that advances in technology, and parallel changes in public discourse, have transformed pregnancy into a...

Based on twenty-five years of fieldwork, Rural Women s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy: A Critical Perspective on Development examines rural women s behaviors towards health in several developing countries. These women are confronted with many factors: gender inequalities, violence from partners, and lack of economic independence. The book also gives insight into the general weakness of the health systems in place and questions the progress of numerous international conferences ICPD (International Conference on Population and Development) and MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)...

After Cuba's 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union fell and Cuba's economic troubles worsened, these programs began to collapse, with serious results for Cuban families.

Conceiving Cuba offers an intimate look at how, with the island's political and economic future in question, reproduction has become the subject of heated public debates and agonizing private decisions. Drawing from...

After Cuba's 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union fell and Cuba's economic troubles worsened, these programs began to collapse, with serious results for Cuban families.

Conceiving Cuba offers an intimate look at how, with the island's political and economic future in question, reproduction has become the subject of heated public debates and agonizing private decisions. Drawing from...

The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World is the first book to chart the origins and evolution of the charity birth control clinic movement in the United States from the 1910s through the 1970s, a period that witnessed dramatic transformation in the goods and services such clinics provided. Rose Holz uncovers the virtually unexamined relationship between Planned Parenthood and the commercial marketplace sphere. Challenging more than thirty years of historiography on birth control, Holz sheds new light on battles over reproductive rights through her analysis of the Planned Parenthood...

Throughout modern history, the Garden of Eden narrative has been viewed through the blurred lenses of tradition and science by both sides of the apologetic debate. In this comprehensive study, Collins challenges readers to look at human origins with a fresh understanding, unhindered by modern culture and varying traditions, and guides them to examine prerequisite elements necessary for a more incisive understanding of the story of Eden, including covenants, original language, and ancient history. The result is a unique and insightful account of the first love story, with its secrets laid bare...

Author James D. Slack guides the reader through an in-depth examination of policy toward life and death in the United States. Examining human life from the perspective of Imago Dei--the idea of being made in God's image--Slack argues that the taking of human life is the termination of the image of God. Intended to remind citizens and governments of their obligations to determine moral truth, this volume uses theocentric phenomenology to focus on the intimate consequences of abortion and capital punishment. Abortion alternatives as well as execution alternatives are explored as ways to...

This is a book for women who struggle to come to grips with the lingering emotional pain of an abortion. It assures readers that their pain is a valid, natural response to abortion, that they can find relief from it, and that healing is a realistic hope.

Im September 1968 hielt ich meine erste Ansprache als Prasident der Weltbank anlalich der Jahresversammlung des Internationalen Wahrungsfonds und der Weltbank. Da- mals sagte ich: Das rasche Bevolkerungswachstum ist eines der groten Hindernisse fur die wirtschaftliche und soziale Entwicklung unserer Mitgliedsstaaten. Das war meine Uberzeugung im Jahre 1968. Und so denke ich noch heute. In den 24 Jahren, die mittlerweile ver- gangen sind, wuchs die Weltbevolkerung schneller als je zu- vor -von 3,4 Milliarden auf 5,4 Milliarden Menschen; das ist eine Zunahme von etwa sechzig Prozent. Mit fast...

James D. Wallace treats moral considerations as beliefs about the right and wrong ways of doing things--beliefs whose source and authority are the same as any other kind of practical knowledge. Principles, rules, and norms arise from people's...

In "Baseball Karma and The Constitution Blues," Ronnie Norpel provides a play-by-play, behind-the-scenes account of a young womans education in life, luck, love and superstition while working for her hometown major league baseball team. The book is steeped in authenticity from Norpels days as a front office rep for the Philadelphia Phillies. Norpels ficto-memoir brims with insider insight, detailing the fastballs, curve balls and errors experienced by main character Mary Katharine "Mick" Carmichael when she gets involved with a rookie on the Constitution Blues team. "Baseball Karma and The...

The full, up-close story of the battle between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood from the woman at the center of the explosive media firestorm of early 2012, Karen Handel, former SVP of Public Policy at Komen.

In 2011, Susan G. Komen for the Cure was growing weary of the "pink" being tarnished by its health grants to Planned Parenthood (PPH), whose many controversies were fueling backlash against Komen. They wanted to remove themselves from the pro-life/abortion debate and made what they thought was a rational, reasonable decision: seek neutral ground in the...

Where does a young girl go to feel safe after being coerced into ending her unwanted pregnancy? How does she try to find inner peace? She runs away. At least that's what Rhonda did. But can an abortion runaway ever find love and feel at home? Rhonda kept trying and hoping, but one wrong turn after another got her into dangerous situations. She never expected her life to ever become this messed up. She was half way around the world, living in a foreign county with a controlling man who frequently threatened her. How did she get here? Inner turmoil and guilt still plagued her, now she also...

Reproductive technology allows us to test embryos' genes before deciding whether to transfer them to a woman's uterus. Embryo selection raises many ethical questions but is virtually unregulated in the United States. This comprehensive study considers the ethical, medical, political, and economic aspects of developing appropriate regulation.

Examines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting cultural and natural resources around the globe.

• Focuses on ethnographic and embedded perspectives, as well as a commitment to ethical engagement
• Appeals to a broad audience, from archaeologists to heritage professionals, museum curators to the general public
• The contributors comprise an outstanding team, representing some of the most prominent scholars in this broad field, with a combination of senior and...

Examines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting cultural and natural resources around the globe.

• Focuses on ethnographic and embedded perspectives, as well as a commitment to ethical engagement
• Appeals to a broad audience, from archaeologists to heritage professionals, museum curators to the general public
• The contributors comprise an outstanding team, representing some of the most prominent scholars in this broad field, with a combination of senior and...

On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far from a bunch of fire-breathing culture warriors. In Defenders of the Unborn, Daniel K. Williams reveals the hidden history of the pro-life movement in America, showing that a cause that many see as reactionary and anti-feminist began as a liberal crusade for human rights.

For decades, the...