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Series
Kerry Kilcannon trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
A pro-abortion presidential candidate is stalked by a pro-life assassin during an electoral campaign in California. The candidate is Kerry Kilcannon, a senator from New Jersey whose brother was shot when he ran for president.
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Language
English
Description
"For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance. But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business-two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the antiabortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how...
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Language
English
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Description
"The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case scenarios of a post-Roe America, and offers ways to fight back, including: how to acquire financial support, how to use existing networks and create new ones, and how to,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe v. Wade and the consequences for women, abortion, and the future of America. In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe was synonymous with women's rights and freedoms. Then, suddenly, it was gone. In their groundbreaking book The Fall of Roe, Elizabeth...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through the perspectives of patients, providers, activists and lawmakers, the author, as the landscape of abortion rights continues to shift, forcing people to cross state lines to seek life-saving care, presents this timely examination of human rights, healthcare and economic and racial inequality in America.
"On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the impact was immediate: by 2024, abortion was virtually unavailable or significantly...
8) Unplanned
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abby Johnson becomes the youngest clinic director in the history of Planned Parenthood, then a life-changing experience turns her into an anti-abortion activist.
9) Lightning
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Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In Florida, a bomb explodes in an abortion clinic, killing two people. The work of a religious zealot, or a personal grudge? The man who will find the answer is disabled PI Fred Carver, a policeman pensioned off after being shot in a robbery. By the author of Burn.
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Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., a BK Currents book
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When Aspen Baker had an abortion at the age of twenty-four, she felt caught between the warring pro-life and pro-choice factions, with no safe space to share her feelings. In this ... book, Baker describes how she and Exhale, the organization she cofounded, developed their pro-voice philosophy and the creative approaches they employed to help women and men have respectful, compassionate exchanges about even this most controversial of topics. She...
Author
Publisher
Perseus Running [distributor]
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Shows that the gains made by birth-control advocates (historically) and pro-choice organizations (currently) have formed the bedrock of freedoms few Americans would choose to live without. Now, not only is the future of legal abortion far from guaranteed, in many parts of the country ready access to many forms of contraception is in jeopardy as well. And that development, Page argues, should have everyone, regardless of moral or political persuasion,...
Author
Publisher
South End Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Kathleen McDonnell unravels the ethical debates surrounding the issue, examines the constituency and strategy of the anti-choice movement, and evaluates the arguments regarding men's rights in abortion decisions in the context of rapidly changing reproduct
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The end of Roe v. Wade is coming. How will you prepare? Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the healthcare you need-by any means necessary. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case scenarios of a post-Roe America, and offers ways to fight back, including: how to acquire financial...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Language
English
Description
Explores a wide variety of issues related to abortion. Abortion in the United States: A Reference Handbook offers a balanced, objective look at the ultimate "wedge" issue in American culture. This volume offers a revealing history of abortion politics and policy from the 1800s to Roe v. Wade to the present, with clear analyses of disputes such as public funding for abortion, the status of the fetus, contraception, abortion as a "litmus test" for candidates...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Abortion is a legal, common, and safe medical procedure that one in three American women will undergo. Yet ever since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, anti-abortion forces have tried nearly every tactic to eliminate it. Legislative and judicial developments dominate the news, but a troubling and all-too-common phenomenon-targeted vigilante action against individual abortion providers-is missing from the national discussion, only cropping up when...
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Choose Life provides pro-life responses from leading experts who help you know what to say-and why to say it-when you're faced with pro-abortion claims. No more fist-shaking and hurled insults. Learn to make the pro-life case with intelligent arguments and compassionate love-just the way a Christian should"--
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The battle over the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade may be over, but now a bigger fight lies ahead. For over half a century, pro-life advocates have fought to protect the sanctity of human life. Now that the decision the pro-life community has been waiting and praying for has finally become a reality, a question remains: Now what? How do we continue to fight for justice-for the preborn, yes, but also for the poor, the vulnerable, and everyone who...
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