Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Abortion & Birth Control

The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth addresses the unique moral questions raised by pregnancy and its intimate bodily nature. From assisted reproduction to abortion and 'vital conflict' resolution to more everyday concerns of the pregnant woman, this book argues for pregnancy as a close human relationship with the woman as guardian or custodian. Four approaches to pregnancy are explored: 'uni-personal', 'neighborly', 'maternal' and 'spousal'. The author challenges not only the view that there is only one moral subject to consider in pregnancy, but also the idea that...

During her lifetime, Sanger transformed herself from working class nurse to an exuberant free-lover and savvy manipulator of the media, the law, and her wealthy supporters. Through direct...

"I've heard that some birth controls can cause abortions. Is that actually true?"

"What about children - God mentions them in the Bible, but what does He really think of them?"

"Does God even care if I have kids?"

Join Melissa McVeda, RN, AE-C, as she explores these questions, examining scientific and biblical evidence in the pursuit of God's view of birth control, procreation, and children.

See Scriptures that address conception and that address blessings and judgments relating to children. Be challenged to compare your own and your culture's view of...

Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.

After a decade-long search Melissa finally locates her birth father and writes to extend forgiveness, only to learn that he has died without answering her burning questions. Melissa becomes a mother herself in the very hospital...

Written by a psychiatrist, this award-winning book asks essential questions about single motherhood, adoption, and abortion to help you carefully think through your decisions about your unplanned pregnancy. Its resource chapters streamline your search for qualified assistance and save time. Its thoroughness and balance make it useful in opening a conversation with loved ones. Let this book be your kind companion as you explore your pregnancy to make the right decisions for you.

Deciding to be a mother includes being willing to be a single mother should you lose your partner .The...

The truly remarkable stories are not of lives that have gone astray, but of those who have gone astray and have been incredibly redeemed, and wholly healed. That is Cynthia Wenz's story, not of a victim, but of someone who learned the healing God offers everyone, and who chose to fully embrace that healing.

At 29, in a flurry of confusion and hurry, Cynthia followed her doctor's urging for a third abortion. But after weeks of exhaustion, she discovered why she was feeling so odd--she was still pregnant. She had been carrying twins, and one of the babies had survived.

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A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond national and racial borders, it shed its radical bearings and was pressed into the service of larger ideological debates around fertility rates and overpopulation, global competitiveness, and eugenics. By the time of the Cold War, a transnational coalition for women's sexual liberation...