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Tough Topics to Discuss
This guide offers resources for topics that may be difficult to discuss. It includes books, ebooks, videos, college resources and community links.
This book is a compilation of CRS reports on abortion in the United States discussing legislation, funding restriction policies and limitations on abortion and family planning, and questions concerning to what extent the government may impose abortion restrictions on aliens.
Whereas biomedical and feminist literature treat abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth as differently conceptualized events, this collection explores the connections between these three categories and discusses pregnancy loss as an embodied and social phenomenon within a framework that understands pregnancy as a process with no guaranteed outcomes.
Provision of safe abortion to the full extent of the law is an important component of reproductive health services. The development of methods of inducing abortion medically (non-surgically) has created alternative options to make abortion available to women in a variety of health-care settings. This booklet seeks to provide answers to frequently asked questions, based on a review of available evidence.
Books available at Evelyn S. Field Library
Books on abortion can be found in the library collection upstairs in the following sections:
HQ767 This section is focused on the social impact of abortion
KF9315 This section is focused on the legal arguments
This book provides a place that is set apart from politics, from labels, from debate and seeks to convey the real abortion experiences of real people and offers interactive suggestions to begin the healing process.
Laws regulating abortion patients and providers treat abortion not as an acceptable medical decision―let alone a right―but as something disreputable, immoral, and chosen by mistake. The author takes these prejudicial views of women’s abortion decisions into the twenty-first century by uncovering new connections between abortion law and American culture and politics.
The question of whether a young woman should be allowed to terminate a pregnancy without her parents' knowledge has been one of the most contentious issues of the post Roe v. Wade era. This is the first book to examine in thorough detail the decision-making experiences of teens considering abortion.