Abortion

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=Books=

Books
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Helpful Search Terms:

 * Abortion
 * Pro-choice or "right to choose"
 * Pro-life or "right to life"
 * Reproductive rights
 * Roe v. Wade

__New Books__
Solinger, Rickie. //Reproductive Politics: What everyone needs to know//. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Print. Wilson, Joshua C. //The Street Politics of Abortion//. Stanford: Stanford Law Books, 2013.
 * Call Number: HQ766.5.U5 S673 2013**
 * Call Number: HQ767.5.U5 W56 2013**

__Circulating Books__
Haerens, Margaret and Lynn M Zott, eds. //Birth Control//. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Print. Berlatsky, Noah, ed. //Global Viewpoints: Abortion//. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Leverich, Jean, ed. //Abortion.// Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Print
 * Call Number:** **HQ766 .B4793 2012**
 * Call Number:** **HQ767.2 .A26 2011**
 * Call Numbers:** **HQ767 .A152 2010** or **KF3771 .A928 2010**

Friedman, Lauri S., ed. //Human Rights.// Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Print. Greenhouse, Linda and Reva B. Siegel, eds. //Before Roe vs. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supereme Court's Ruling//. New York: Kaplan Publishing, 2010. Print.
 * Call Number:** **JC571.H76845 2010**
 * Call Number: KF228.R59 B44 2010x**

Freedman, Lori. //Willing and Unable: Doctors' Constraints in Abortion Care.// Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010. Print.
 * ​Call Number:** **HQ767.5.U5 F745 2010**

__Reference Books__
__**Encyclopedias**__ //Encyclopedia of Women's Health, 2009.//
 * Call Number: RA778.A494 2009**

__**Handbooks**__ //Abortion: a Reference Handbook, 2008.//
 * Call Number: HQ767.5 .U5 C67**

__**General**__ //Debates on U.S. Health Care, 2012.// //Landmark Supreme Court Cases:, 2012.//
 * Call Number: RA395.A3 D433 2012**
 * Call Number: KF8742 .H37 2012 v.1-3**

=__E-Books__= [|Behind Every Choice is a Story] Feldt, Gloria and Jennings, Carol Tric. //Behind Every Choice is a Story.// College Station: University of North Texas, 2004

[|Health and Medical Issues Today: Birth Control] Zorea, Aharon W. //Health and Medical Issues Today: Birth Control.// Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2012.

=__Streaming Video__=

[|Abortion: The Choice] While abortion will no doubt polarize our society for the foreseeable future, students can learn a great deal from the circumstances, anxieties, and life goals that surround the decision to end a pregnancy. This program presents a poignant and profoundly honest look at that decision through intimate discussions with young British women. Cheryl imagines other choices she might have made if her ex-boyfriend had remained with her. Carmel shares her college and career plans, insisting that she’s not ready to bring a child into the world. Hannah describes undergoing a spiritual crisis, while Margaret’s sense of relief contrasts sharply with Varria’s feelings of grief and shame. An abortion counselor also shares insights. (59 minutes)

[|Abortion and Divorce in Western Law] All laws tell stories, says Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon—stories about who we are, where we came from, where we are going, and what we value. Can Americans learn something from the abortion and divorce laws of other countries? Glendon says we have a lot to learn, and that it may surprise us. Glendon, whose field is comparative law, found her own assumptions challenged when she started the research for her prize-winning book, //Abortion and Divorce in Western Law,// which contrasts the legal practices of Europe and America as they bear on the difficult choices of these controversial issues. In this program with Bill Moyers, Glendon talks about family issues on both sides of the Atlantic. (30 minutes)

[|The Abortion War: Thirty Years After Roe Vs. Wade] In the years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of abortion, the political scene has changed dramatically enough to threaten this landmark decision. On the 30th anniversary of //Roe v. Wade//, this ABC News program surveys the current landscape of opinion and political alignment, examining the shift of momentum concerning abortion rights. Correspondent Dave Marash reports from Minnesota, while anchor Chris Bury discusses the issue with a panel of women who hold disparate views on abortion rights. (22 minutes)

[|A Choice for Life: The Decision-Making Process in High-Risk Pregnancies] Medical technology bestows a diagnostic power with thorny consequences: depending on what the test results reveal, parents and doctors can decide whether or not to let a pregnancy run its course. By following three couples dealing with high-risk pregnancies at a hospital in France, this program gets inside the complex decision-making process used by doctors and obstetric specialists, including how they present their recommendations to the parents with whom the decision ultimately rests. With its access to behind-the-scenes staff meetings and private doctor/patient dialogues, this case study is an excellent resource for health care professionals and medical counseling staff alike. Not available in French-speaking Canada. (50 minutes)

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's periodicals section for articles about abortion.
 * //Newsweek//
 * //Time//
 * //US News & World Report//

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases. Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including over 13,000 article mentioning "abortion", 120 with "abortion" and "moral & ethical aspects", and 450 articles mentioning "reproductive rights". This database includes more than 10,000 full-text results on the subject of abortion from academic journals, magazines, books and newspapers, as well as over 350 multimedia items. This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. It includes over 1100 results on abortion from magazines, newspapers, and other sources.
 * ==[|Academic Search Premier]==
 * ==[|Academic OneFile]==
 * ==[|Issues and Controversies]==

=__Web sites__= There are many helpful web sites about abortion. The web sites listed below have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Cornell University] has an informative guide.


 * [|MedLine Plus]
 * From the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, this MedlinePlus article about abortion provides unbiased information from various medical organizations.
 * [|Guttmacher Institute]
 * The Guttmacher Institute, a leading researcher on international sexual and reproductive health, includes abortion statistics, policy articles, and other unbiased information.
 * [|National Abortion Federation]
 * The National Abortion Federation is the professional association of abortion providers in the United States and Canada. In addition to offering general information about abortion procedures, it also includes a directory of abortion providers. Limited versions of the site are also offered in Spanish & French.
 * [|The Last Abortion Clinic]
 * "The Last Abortion Clinic" by FRONTLINE on PBS. Includes the full program online, a map of abortion regulation laws in the United States, interviews, and statistics.

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Research guide prepared on 10/08/2008 by Micheal Schaffer; updated on 6/08/2009 by Gena Pliakas; updated on 5/15/13 by Mallory Wilson; updated on 03/01/2014 by Katie Bliss.