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The links below enable you to explore the following topics:
- Reasons to support a woman's right to choose, even if you don't personally like abortion
- Current medical information on a range of contraceptive practices
- Summary of the legal battle for women's access to contraception and abortion over the last 100 years
- Websites of organizations involved in pro-choice activities
- Democratic and Republican pro-choice, female politicians
- Biblical interpretations, religious positions, and ethical stands in support of a woman's right to choose
- Notes on feminist foremothers in the struggle for sex education and birth control
- Medical history of contraception and abortion
- Legal history of contraception and abortion
- History of Catholic theologians and canonists attitudes toward contraception and abortion
- Lots of people's reasons for supporting women's right to choose
- Some essays by Sunshine that summarize the issue and call attention to obscure, yet, pertinent, information
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Sunshine for Women's Originals
Abortion and Woman's Choice:The State, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom, by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Northeastern University Press, 1990, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
A Brief History of Abortion, an essay by Sunshine
Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle, Harvard University Press, 1992, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
A Debate with Carole LaFreniere, rabid anti-choicer. See for yourself how easy it is to pick apart their arguments when you take it one phrase and one sentence at a time.
How You Can Help: some suggestilons for being a pro-choice activist compiled by abortion providers, our front line warriors
Human Life Amendment, an essay by Sunshine
Law, Gender, & Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women, Joan Hoff, New York University Press, 1991, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James Brundage, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Olde Hermit on abortion
The Republican War Against Women by Tanya Melich, Bantan- Double Day, 1995, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Rethinking Abortion: Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics, by Mark A. Graber, Princeton University Press, 1996, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
The Sex Side of Life: Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education, by Constance M. Chen, The New Press, NY, 1996, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Abortion and Woman's Choice:The State, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom, by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Northeastern University Press, 1990, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Some Questions About the Human Life Amendment, a SHORT essay by Sunshine
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, by Anne Llewellyn Barstow, Pandora, 1994 (wichcrz.wps), a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes files (About 1/3 of the women who died as witches were female folk healers, many of whom taught women about contraceptive herbal potions and abortificients.)
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Activists, Activism, Organizations, and Institutions Clinics and Women's Health Centers On-line
Ethics, Morality and Theology of Abortion
History of Abortion in America and Abortion in Contemporary American Law
Abortion Law Homepage
Abortion/ Contraception As Resistance to Slavery Bibliography
Abortion Rights and Fetal "Personhood" (Book Review at IFAS)
Abortion: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , March 1997
Abortion and Woman's Choice:The State, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom, by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Northeastern University Press, 1990, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
From Choice to Consent, a summary of the ideas in Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent by Eileen McDonagh
Hieros Gamos II Civil Rights: The Best Law Site on Women's Rights on the Net
History of Birth Control
History of Contraception
Law, Gender, & Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women, Joan Hoff, New York University Press, 1991, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
On Breaking the Abortion Deadlock, From Choice to Consent by McDonagh
The People vs. Bill Baird : Struggling for Your Right to Privacy
Rethinking Abortion: Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics, by Mark A. Graber, Princeton University Press, 1996, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Sarah Weddington
The Sex Side of Life: Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education, by Constance M. Chen, The New Press, NY, 1996, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, and the History of Abortion in America
Planned Parenthood v. Casey: A Legal Analysis of Abortion Rights
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History of Abortion (non-US)
Ancient Medicine: Homer, Hippocrates, Galen, and Vesalius
A Brief History of Abortion
A Brief History of Abortion, an essay by Sunshine
Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle, Harvard University Press, 1992, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James Brundage, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987, a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes file
Medicine and Anatomy from WLGR (Women's Life in Greece and Rome)
Taking Precautions A History of Contraception
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, by Anne Llewellyn Barstow, Pandora, 1994 (wichcrz.wps), a Sunshine for Women's Booknotes files (About 1/3 of the women who died as witches were female folk healers, many of whom taught women about contraceptive herbal potions and abortificients.)
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Medical Information about Abortion and Contraception
Medical Abortions
Miscellaneous and Multifaceted
News and Contemporary Politics (International)
News and Contemporary Politics (National)
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last updated October 20, 2002
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