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A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATION
Forty-years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion...
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Atria Books
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2023.
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English
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In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
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A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller. Chicago, early 1970s: Who does a woman call when she needs help? Jane. The best-known secret in the city, Jane is an underground women's health organization composed entirely of women helping women, empowering them to live lives free from the expectations...
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Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is only alive because she was rescued after a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her parents, and her own journey from rage and shame to faith and empowerment. After a decade-long search Melissa finally locates her father and writes to extend forgiveness, only to read that he has died suddenly-before he can answer her burning questions. Then her mother's...
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If you want God to laugh, tell him your plans."For Jose the cook and Nina the beautiful waitress life has not turned out the way either had planned. Living with the weight of guilt and lost dreams, each struggles to survive and to make sense of what life now holds. But the events of one ordinary day in New York City turn into an unforgettable experience that changes both of their lives forever.Based on the #1 top-rated movie of 2007 and one of the...
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Scribner
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[2020]
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English
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A groundbreaking and illuminating look at the state of abortion access in America and the first long-term study of the consequences-emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological-of receiving versus being denied an abortion on women's lives--
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The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh-a gifted chronicler of the human condition (Washington Post Book World)-is a tense, riveting story about the disparate lives that intersect at a woman's clinic in Boston--
10) Happening
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In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she...
11) Luciana
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(Maggie B.).Nine months volume 6
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EPIC Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Luci remembers how the boys kissed her. She remembers how they touched her and told her she was beautiful. Sometimes she can hear their voices in her head, begging her for more. And she can remember how it felt when she gave it to them. For a while anyway. But when she finds out that she is pregnant she has to face her father and the dark family secret that he's been hiding. Ultimately, she decides to abort the baby. Will she ever be at peace with...
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While there are some Americans who are inclined to evaluate the moral, ethical, and medical legitimacy of abortion on a case-by-case basis, many others are strictly, unwaveringly pro-choice (favoring abortion rights) or pro-life (antiabortion). Over the last few decades, whether abortions should be legal at all-under any circumstances-has created a deep political rift across the United States. This book, which charts the shifts in interpretation of...
15) Plan A
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Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
16) Unplanned
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[Mill Creek Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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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.
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
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A history of the fight for reproductive rights in the United States. Tracing the path to the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade and the continuing battle for women's rights, Blumenthal examines the root causes of the current debate around abortion and repercussions that have affected generations of American women. This book intends to facilitate difficult discussions and awareness of a topic that is rarely touched on in school but affects each and...
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W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.
Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers―a previously unseen trove―and witnessed her final moments....
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