Open Directory - Society: Issues: Abortion: Pro-Choice
See also: - A collaboration of nearly 50 pro-choice organizations working together to reach, educate, and energize young people about choice. - Stories of a counselor in an abortion clinic, with reflections on the threat to choice from recent political decisions. - Campaigning for legal reform and the provision of easily accessible, woman friendly, NHS funded abortion services in the UK. - Essay attempting to apply logic to the abortion question instead of emotion. - In-depth, extensive examination of the issue of abortion from religious, historical, scientific and moral/ethical perspectives. - Medical educators offer their perspectives on the social and health benefits of abortion and the need for younger health care professionals to understand the importance of safe abortion. - A national program located at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, which acts as a resource to the academic community and the reproductive rights movement and makes links between the two. - Organization leads efforts to keep women's health clinics open in the face of violence and harassment by abortion opponents. - Description of abortion procedures, reasons why women seek abortion, personal abortion stories, FAQs. - A five-segment audio adaptation of the video trilogy titled From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond (in Real Audio). - Offers women sharing their positive experiences with abortion. With news, FAQ, archive, forum, and links. - The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism presents news, action alerts, and views on abortion and related issues. - An essay written by pro-choicers, describing how they view both sides of the issue. - Includes essays, FAQ, links and a forum. Advocates that a child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. - Pro-Choice discussion group focusing on the issue of abortion in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. - Calls abortion an issue of religious freedom, the motives of anti-abortion activists to be political, exposes Christian anti-abortion hypocrisy, and presents evidence that true personhood begins at birth. - The American Prospect's archive of political articles and debate supporting reproductive rights. From 2000 and onward. - Ethicist Daniel Maguire and other scholars discuss moral and religious perspectives on reproductive choice. - States that Bush is planning for a total ban on abortions, enacted incrementally. - Provides facts on the Supreme Court decision and subsequent legislation, gives stories by women who needed abortions, and chronicles the Bush Administration's actions against abortion and birth control. - Essay by teenager on why she had an abortion, information on procedures, facts, journal, plus stories and opinions from others. - Essay presenting the pros and cons of the abortion debate from the vantage point of social contract theory. - A pro-choice website "letting pro-choice and anti-choice activists make their case in their own words" through quotations and links. - A new book that explains the immediate positive consequences of the abortion choice, as well as the long-term benefits for the woman, for her children, for her family, and for her country. With excerpts and related links. - Campaign for abortion on request throughout the United Kingdom. Web site has information about UK abortion law, news, and other information. - Editorial asserting that the Dilation and Extraction ban signed by Bush is nothing more than a political maneuver to chip away at a woman's right to choose, and the law is so vague that it fails to address important medical issues. (December 04, 2003) - Mother Jones article tells how Catholic heath care chains are absorbing a growing number of small-town hospitals -- leaving local women with nowhere to go for services from abortions to fertility treatments. (June 01, 2000) - Paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, explores the possibility that legal abortion has contributed to dropping crime rates in the United States. (April 01, 2000)
