Ethical issues, topics and debates: reproductive health, abortion and birth control Books
London Publishing Partnership Abortion in the European Union: Actors, Issues
Book SynopsisA medical act with multiple social, psychological and emotional implications, abortion is a socio-political issue in its own right. Access to the right to abortion is subject to tension, opposition and conflict between different actors or ideas with sometimes extremely antagonistic positions. While Europe is the continent where access to safe and legal abortion seems to be closest to international medical and health recommendations, authorities in several countries are challenging this access. In general, attempts to restrict access, whether successful or not, highlight the possible reversibility of the right to access abortion. As a result, the right to abortion remains a highly sensitive issue of public and political debate. This book compares the legal regime of abortion in the different EU countries and the effectiveness of the right of access to abortion. Moreover, it traces the evolution of the political debate while drawing on the concrete example of Belgium. This examination highlights the extent to which the calls for the right to abortion and the institutional recognition of this right are shaped by various actors within national and international networks. The positions and framing of the issues by these ‘pro-choice’ and ‘pro-life’ actors, including the Holy See, are carefully analysed. The book also examines the discrepancy between the citizenship approach adopted by research on sexual and reproductive rights and the language of human rights used by activists to legitimise themselves as interlocutors in political deliberation and to justify their claims. This book provides a comparative look at the discourses and practices of abortion rights across Europe.
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Aeon Books Ltd Honouring the Loss: A Holistic Guide to Healing
Book SynopsisA gentle and loving guide for women healing from an abortion. Many women go through at least one in their lifetime, yet in our society abortion still remains a taboo subject. As lucky as we are in the UK to be able to have safe abortions, the nature of medical care has meant that while the process is quick and efficient, minimal thought that has gone into the aftermath. How has it affected our bodies? Is it acceptable to grieve? How can we honour the loss? Honouring the Loss is a guide that covers a whole spectrum of time; whether you are about to have an abortion or had one many years ago, there are specific exercises, meditations, herbs and rituals for each stage of this journey. Woven throughout is the wisdom of herbal medicine; as you discover which herbs to take for common physical or emotional imbalances, as well as learning how to make your own herbal teas, tinctures and oils to empower your journey back to health. Rituals offer the chance to transform any emotions or feelings in a way of beauty, as they open a new doorway that leads you to a place of peace and acceptance for all you have been through.Table of Contents- DEDICATION - PREFACE - CHOICE OF WORDS - HOW TO WORK WITH THE BOOK - INTRODUCTION - Chapter 1: Herbal medicine - Chapter 2: Before an abortion - Chapter 3: Just after an abortion - Chapter 4: Long term after an abortion - Chapter 5: Rituals - Chapter 6: Nutrition - Chapter 7: Body, movement and voice practices - Chapter 8: Boyfriends, partners, husbands - Chapter 9: Miscarriage - EPILOGUE - END NOTES - RESOURCES - BIBLIOGRAPHY - GLOSSARY - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - INDEX
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University of London Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England
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University of London Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England
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Scribe Publications Abortion: a personal story, a political choice
Book Synopsis‘How better to honour the women who have fought for abortion rights, those who are still fighting around the world, those who have suffered from its illegality, those who still suffer from its limitations, than to continue to talk about it?’ In this timely essay, Pauline Harmange provides an intimate, detailed account of her abortion. Reminiscent of Annie Ernaux’s Happening, Abortion is nuanced, complex, honest, and precise. Harmange gives voice to the emotions, reflections, and contradictions that someone could experience when they choose to terminate a pregnancy. At a time in which women’s reproductive rights are being called into question around the world, Abortion is a clarion call, a powerful personal testimony, and a resolutely political vision: to restore power to our experiences, all our experiences, by sharing them, and to transform society for the better.Trade Review‘Abortion: a personal story, a political choice … defuses arguments on both sides of the abortion rights issue by presenting an intelligent, heartfelt understanding of what matters most … a solid, thought-provoking read that proves to be a noteworthy effort to open a much-needed discussion about a societal taboo.’ * Shelf Awareness *‘In this nuanced account, Harmange (I Hate Men) reflects on her decision to have an abortion … She uses her story as a launching pad to explore the politics of abortion and laments that taboo inhibits frank discussion of the “feelings of ambiguity, negativity, sadness, and insecurity” that can accompany the procedure … Harmange excels at illuminating intersections between the personal and the political, and her willingness to probe her own pain makes for powerful reading. Timely and affecting, this packs a punch.’ * Publishers Weekly *‘Harmange’s essay so perfectly marries the personal and political, illustrating why we need to keep the conversation going around abortion and the nuances of experience.’ * Ramona Magazine *‘In this personal essay, [Harmane] explores the need for a space in which women are free to talk about the feelings of ambivalence, negativity, sadness and insecurity that can follow an abortion. When she decided to undergo this procedure because of her economic circumstances, she thought it would be “quick and easy, over and done”. But it wasn’t that simple. While she didn’t regret it, she still had to live with the legacy of society’s attitudes toward the termination of pregnancy and her own body’s visceral response. Her candid ruminations add valuable nuance to this fraught debate.’ -- Fiona Capp * The Sydney Morning Herald *‘The vulnerability and openness with which Harmange shares her emotions reveal that for many women who find themselves pregnant — often despite contraception, the decision to abort is not an easy one…In many ways, Abortion is a bookend to Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux’s book Happening.’ * The Arts Fuse *Praise for I Hate Men: ‘A delightful book.’ -- Roxane GayPraise for I Hate Men: ‘Rousing … a call to liberation. Her writing is full of hope, unwavering in its trust of other women and their abilities.’ * Independent *Praise for I Hate Men: ‘Written in wise prose, devoid of excess or rage, I Hate Men explores the terrain of contemporary feminism, its arguments in keeping with those of writers like Rebecca Solnit, as well as the movement’s key ideas: patriarchy, the mental load, #MeToo, and solidarity.’ * L’Obs *Praise for I Hate Men: ‘An exhilarating essay to be read in one sitting.’ * Libération *
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Monash University Publishing Towards Reproductive Justice
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Spinifex Press Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics
Book SynopsisIn the face of widespread discrimination against the disabled and a eugenic culture which pathologises disability and crushes diversity, comes a new book which radically challenges the status quo. Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, tells the personal stories of women who have resisted medical eugenics - women who were told they shouldn't have babies because of perceived disability in themselves or because of some imperfection in the child. They have confronted the stigma of disability and in the face of silent disapproval and even open hostility, had their children anyway, in the belief that all life is valuable and that some are not more worthy of it than others.
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NEWTYPE Publishing Supremely Wrong: The Injustice of Abortion
Book SynopsisUNDERSTAND THE BIG ISSUE DIVIDING OUR NATION “Every political fight will eventually be an abortion fight,” stated The Daily Beast in 2017. Gallup polls confirm that abortion rights versus the right to life remains the most contentious debate in American society. Shouldn’t we discard the talking points and examine why it all matters? In SUPREMELY WRONG, Dr. Brent Boles provides an insider’s survey of the issues at stake. From helping his patients left mistreated by the abortion industry, to testifying before state legislators, firsthand accounts from this practicing OB/GYN reveal injustice at large in America. Dr. Boles opens the leading embryology textbooks to show what science says about when life begins. He exposes how the silence of the church and two-faced politicians have contributed to the national loss of nearly one million babies in the womb annually. He even shares transparently of his own pain and regret, which today fuels a life-saving mission. Applying principles of medical ethics to challenge popular pro-choice rhetoric, SUPREMELY WRONG advances the national dialogue on life issues with surprising stories and accessible logic. It’s more than research that resounds with truth. It’s a call to action.
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Scribe Us Abortion: A Personal Story, a Political Choice
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Scribner Book Company The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women,
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Scribner Book Company The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women,
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Moral Case for Abortion: A Defence of
Book SynopsisThis revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman’s right to decide the future of her pregnancy. Drawing on traditions of philosophical and sociological thinking, it presents the case for recognizing autonomy in personal, private decision-making about reproductive intentions. Further, it argues that to prevent a woman making this decision according to her own values is to undermine the essence of her humanity. The author explores how true respect for human life and regard for individual conscience demands that we support a woman’s right to decide, and that support for her right to terminate her pregnancy has moral foundations and ethical integrity. This second edition features a foreword by US abortion provider and reproductive justice advocate Dr. Willie Parker, as well as additional chapters that consider the rights of doctors and nurses to withdraw from abortion provision on grounds of conscience. Furedi also surveys the rapidly changing landscape of the abortion debate, including the rights of women in the aftermath of Trump's presidency; debates, politics and religion in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; and the differing levels of provision across Europe.Table of Contents
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Peter Lang AG Human Genetic Selection and Enhancement: Parental
Book SynopsisAmong all human practices, procreation seems the most paradoxical. It starts as a fully personal choice and ends with the creation of a new subject of rights and responsibilities. Advances in reproductive genetics pose new ethical and legal questions. They are expected to prevent the transmission of genetic diseases to progeny and also to improve genetically-endowed mental and physical attributes. Genetic selection and enhancement may affect a child’s identity, as well as the parent-child relationship. The authors are committed to a pluralistic approach that captures all aspects of this relationship in terms of moral virtues and principles. They elucidate that most of the conflicts between parental preferences and a child’s rights could be resolved with reference to the meaning and nature of procreation.Table of ContentsEthical standards of genetic counselling and reproductive autonomy - The criteria of rationality in genetic selection - Sex as a criterion for progeny selection - Reproductive harm - Selective procreation and disability - Parent-God analogy in procreative decisions - Spare embryos and parental obligations - Human enhancement and the question of justice - The question of human self-understanding in the debate over moral human enhancement: reasoning, autonomy, intentionality and authenticity - Genetic improvement and moral perfection - Bio-conservatism and the preference for status-quo - Procreative autonomy in the context of person-affecting and impersonal reasons for human enhancement - Intrinsic and instrumental values in the assessment of human enhancement
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Peter Lang AG Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading
Book SynopsisThis book presents a collection of studies by top scholars on leading cases from twelve different jurisdictions defining the legal status of unborn human life. The cases under study pertain to three distinctive cultural and constitutional systems: Latin American Constitutional Courts and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, European Constitutional Courts and the European Court on Human Rights, as well as Common Law jurisdictions. With a special conclusion by Professor John Finnis, drawing together the many treads of the individual chapters into a comprehensive whole, this book lays the basis for further comparative study of the legal and moral reasoning underlying judicial decisions which either recognize or deny legal personhood and/or equal dignity to unborn human beings. Robert P. George McCormick, Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University:"Pilar Zambrano and William L. Saunders have done a great service by giving us a thorough compilation of the law of various jurisdictions concerning the status and rights of the unborn. They have brought together an impressive group of scholars and obtained from them work of the highest intellectual caliber." Prof. Carlos Massini-Correas, University of Mendoza and University of Buenos Aires:"In undertaking the very unusual task of analyzing both the legal and the moral horizon of interpretation underlying leading judicial decisions, this book represents an exceptional shortcut to the bulk of constitutional and philosophical arguments in favor of the enhancement of the value of unborn human life to the status of a right. This mixed perspective of study allows us to avoid the usual fallacy of both sides of the abortion debate, to overlook either its moral or its legal framework."Table of ContentsUnborn human life – Dignity – Person – Embryo – Reproductive rights – Leading cases – Comparative constitutional law – Finnis – Biolaw – Privacy – Abortion in Latin-America –Abortion in Italy – Abortion in Spain – Abortion in Poland – Abortion in Ireland – Abortion in the European Court of Human Rights – Unborn life in the InterAmerican Court of Human rights – Abortion in the USA – Abortion in Canada.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Abortion Rights, Access, and Legislative Response
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Haymarket Books Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the
Book SynopsisA collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara Ehrenreich, who conceived of EHRP, once described as "the real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals."One essayist and grocery store worker describes what it is like to be an “essential worker” during the pandemic; another reporter and military veteran details his experience with homelessness and what would have actually helped him at the time. These dozens of fierce and sometimes darkly funny pieces reflect the larger systems that have made writers' bodily experiences, family and home lives, and work far harder than they ought to be.Featuring introductions by luminaries including Michelle Tea, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor, Going for Broke is revelatory. It shows us the costs of income inequality to our bodies and our minds—and demonstrates real ways to change our conditions.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONBy Alissa QuartSection 1. THE BODYIntroduction by Camonghne Felix“A Stay At Kings County” by Charlie Gross“I Did My Own Abortion” by Anonymous“Women afraid of dying while /they are trying to find their life” by Alissa Quart & Katha Pollitt“Medicaid Has Been Good to My Body. But It Has Abandoned My Brain” by Katie Prout“Love and War” by Karie Fugett“My Disability Is My Superpower: If Only Employers Could See It That Way.” by Andrea Dobynes and Deborah Jian Lee“A Trip to the Nail Salon with Missing Fingers” By Kim Kelly“Traumatic Pregnancies Are Awful. Dobbs Will Make Them So Much Worse” by Alissa Quart“The Twisted Business of Donating Plasma” by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington“To Help the Homeless, Offer Shelter That Allows Deep Sleep” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“Inequity In Maternal Health Care Left Me With Undiagnosed Postpartum PTSD” by Courtney Lund O’Neil“Anything of Value” by Lorelei Lee2. HomeIntroduction by Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor“Homeless in a Pandemic” by Jennifer Fitzgerald“I Was Given a House for Free But It Already Belonged to Someone Else” by Anne Elizabeth Moore“I Grew Up Without a Fixed Address” by Bobbi Dempsey“Evictionland” by Joseph Williams“37,000 US Veterans Are Homeless. I Was One of Them” by Alex Miller“Why I Choose to Live House-Free in Alaska” by Joe Ford“I Was Wrongly Detained at the Border. It’s Part of a Larger Problem” by David Wallis“I Watched War Erupt in the Balkans. Here’s What I See in America Today” by Elizabeth Rubin“A Fierce Desire to Stay: Looking At West Virginia Through Its People’s Eyes” by Elizabeth Catte, Matt Eich, and Doug Van Gundy3. FamilyIntroduction by Michelle Tea“Heartbreaking Images from a Photographer Grappling with a Complex Past,” photos by Jordan Gale“When My Father Called Me About His Unemployment” by Lisa Ventura“I Took in a Homeless Couple. Would You?” by Annabelle Gurwitch“My Marriage Was Broken: The Coronavirus Lockdown Saved It” By Robert Fieseler“PS 42” by Celina Su, photo by Annie Ling“My Sister Is a Recovering Heroin Addict” by Elizabeth Kadetsky“In the Pandemic, Cooking Connected Me to My Ancestors” by Elizabeth Gollan“The Underground Economy of Unpaid Care” by Julie Poole“The Worst Part About Being Poor: Watching Your Dog Die” by Bobbi Dempsey“Nomen Est Omen” by Mitchell S. Jackson4. Work Introduction by Kathi Weeks“How the Taxi Workers Won” by Molly Crabapple“My Pandemic Year Behind the Checkout Counter” by Ann Larson“From Academic to Assembly Line Worker” by Gloria Diaz“Once Upon a Time, ‘Waitress’ Was a Union Job. Could History Repeat Itself?” by Haley Hamilton“Why I Check the “Black” Box” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“My Life As a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor” by Joseph Williams“What It’s Like Riding Along with a Valet Driver at a San Francisco Strip Club” photos by Rian Dundon“You Talk Real Good” by Alison Stine“The Secret Lives of Adjunct Professors” by Gila Berryman“The Poetry of Labor: On Rodrigo Toscano and the Art of Work” by Alissa Quart and Rodrigo Toscano; photo by David Bacon “Zen and the Art of Uber Driving” by John Koopman5. ClassIntroduction by Astra Taylor“The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor” Words by Erynn Brook, illustrations by Emily Flake“That Sinking Feeling” by Ray Suarez“Off Our Butts” by June Thunderstorm“Never-ending Sentences,” by Philip Metres“The Dignity of the Thrift Store” by Elizabeth Gollan“Class Dismissed” by Alison Stine“For Years, I’ve Tried to Work My Way Back into the Middle Class” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“What Does it Mean to Be ‘Bad with Money?’” by Joshua Hunt
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Woodtick Press The Abortion Controversy
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