ProCon.org is the country's leading source for pro, con, and related research on controversial issues. Understanding issues using this structured methodology helps to improve academic performance, and increase civic engagement.
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Pro-Choice
Right to Life
Unwanted Pregnancy
Roe v Wade
Reproductive Health
Women's Rights
Women's Health
Roe v. Wade Overturned In the case Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court decision overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. As a result, abortion laws are now to be determined at the state level.
Texas Heartbeat Act Senate Bill 8 The Texas Heartbeat Act prohibits a physician from performing or inducing an abortion after a "fetal heartbeat" has been detected. The law makes exceptions for medical emergencies.
The Ethics of Abortion - When Does Life Begin? (2019) This film addresses the controversy created by Roe vs Wade and then provides students with an unbiased analysis of the ethical issues underlying demands for the criminalization and the legalization of abortion.
Abortion: The Choice While abortion will no doubt polarize our society for the foreseeable future, students can learn a great deal from the circumstances, anxieties, and life goals that surround the decision to end a pregnancy. This program presents a poignant and profoundly honest look at that decision through intimate discussions with young British women.
Abortion: Stories Women Tell In "Abortion: Stories Women Tell", sheds new light on this contentious issue, focusing not on the debate, but rather on women themselves. Centering on the Hope Clinic for Women (just across the Missouri state line in Granite City, Illinois), the film profiles women struggling with unplanned pregnancies.
Health Equity in a Post 'Roe Versus Wade' America How will the Supreme Court's decision affect women, children, and physicians? How will state laws impact healthcare equity regarding reproductive rights going forward? Byron, Jessica J., et al. "Health Equity in a Post ‘Roe Versus Wade’ America." Cureus, vol. 14, no. 12, 2022. ProQuest.
Abortion
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This replacement of the 1991 title contains an anthology of writings about abortion that covers morality, ethical concerns, & safety, & also considers justification & whether abortion rights should be restricted.
Pro-Life, Pro-Choice
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In this provocative and accessible book, the author defends a pro-choice perspective but also takes seriously pro-life concerns about the moral value of the human fetus, questioning whether a fetus is nothing more than "mere tissue." She examines the legal status of the fetus in the recent Personhood Amendments in state legislatures and in Supreme Court decisions and asks whether Roe v. Wade should have focused on the viability of the fetus or on the bodily integrity of the woman. Manninen approaches the abortion controversy through a variety of perspectives and ethical frameworks. She addresses the social circumstances that influence many women's decision to abort and considers whether we believe that there are good and bad reasons to abort. Manninen also looks at the call for post-abortion fetal grieving rituals for women who desire them and the attempt to make room in the pro-choice position for the views of prospective fathers. The author spells out how the two sides demonize each other and proposes ways to find degrees of convergence between the seemingly intractable positions.
Roe vs. Wade
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The issue of abortion has sharply divided America. The bitter debate over Roe v. Wade - in the courts, legislatures, press and streets - has grown ever more ferocious since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 1973. For years pro-choicers have applauded Roe as a guarantee of women's rights, while pro-lifers have condemned it as the work of an activist and atheistic Court. Now it looms at the centre of a growing political storm, as a new president, and old Court, and a divided Congress reconsider Roe's status in the wake of the controversial 2000 elections.
Should Abortion Be Legal?
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Experts estimate that approximately 1.2 million abortions occur in the United States annually. Through objective discussion, numerous direct quotes, and full-color illustrations this title examines What Are the Origins of the Abortion Controversy? Is Abor
Understanding Abortion
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Books on abortion (other than collections of readings) typically express and defend a particular position. This book gives both sides, as evenly and objectively as possible; it gets to the heart of each position, the core idea which animates it. It then leaves the reader to make up his or her own mind. It is an introduction to the issue, not only to the basic positions on the issue. Despite being brief, it contains careful analyses and discussions of many topics often not found at all in other works. The treatment is thorough and detailed, but succinct. Understanding Abortion: From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought is aimed at all people who want a better understanding of what the two sides on this issue are really saying, and what reasons they give for their position. Many people assume that this issue is an interminable one, with "no clear answers"; a purely emotional debate that cannot be addressed by the use of reasoned arguments. The book shows that this is not the case.
Pew Research: What the data says about abortion in the U.S.
The Pew Research Center has conducted many surveys about abortion over the years, providing a lens into Americans’ views on the topic. This site provides data compiled after the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.