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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Dublin, Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel, investigates the 25-year-old mystery of actress Julia Bridge's disappearance and her link to a woman who facilitated abortions, and becomes immersed in the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.
43) Roe v. Wade
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history. It is a compelling and deeper look into the parties involved on both sides of this landmark decision.
44) Unplanned
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"It's hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office.The Walters are a good, churchgoing family who stand for holiness, purity, grace, and Christian love. Except when they don't. Family patriarch and fanatic preacher, Victor Black, knows many things for sure, including the fact that abortion is murder and should be punishable by death - a position he defends live in a televised debate. Black's youngest granddaughter, Stephanie Walters, sits...
46) Unpregnant
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Veronica never thought she'd want to fail a test-that is until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make. This never-taken-lightly decision leads her on a 1000-mile hilarious road trip to New Mexico over three days with her ex-best friend, Bailey where they discover sometimes...
48) Wombgenda
Author
Publisher
Tatianagill.com
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Wombgenda is a collection of autobiographical comics spanning one life lived as a woman in today's society. Abortion, birth control, low self esteem, eating disorders, vibrators, and medical horrors are lived through and depicted in this book, along with overcoming obstacles, laughing through the pain, and surviving another day as a woman whose reproductive organs had been vacuumed, dug through, biopsied, skewered, lasered off, and prodded by a whole...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business-two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the antiabortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how...
Publisher
GVN Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The film is the shocking true story of the investigation and trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell - his 30 year killing spree and the political and media establishment that tried to cover it up. Originally investigated for illegal prescription drug sales, a raid by DEA, FBI & local law enforcement revealed crimes they could not have expected within the clinic.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these stubborn facts, with statutes and judicial decisions that presume people to be autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose. As legal scholar O. Carter Snead points out, this individualistic ideology captures important truths about human freedom, but it also means that we have no obligations...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A candid and philosophical memoir tackling abortion and the complex decision to reproduce Opening in an abortion clinic, I Know You Rider accompanies Leslie Stein through a year of her life, steeped in emotions she was not quite expecting while also looking far beyond her own experiences. Through melodically rendered conversations with loved ones and strangers, Stein weaves one continuing conversations with herself. She presents a sometimes sweet,...
53) The Cardinal
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Epic drama about the rise of a socially conscious Irish American priest through the ranks to Cardinal.
54) The billboard
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Billboard is about a fictional Black women’s clinic in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on the South Side and its fight with a local gadfly running for City Council who puts up a provocative billboard: “Abortion is genocide. The most dangerous place for a Black child is his mother’s womb,” spurring on the clinic to fight back with their own provocative sign: “Black women take care of their families by taking care of themselves. Abortion...
Author
Publisher
3 Fields Books, an imprint of the University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 1990, a suburban Chicago race for the Republican Party nomination for state representative between Penny Pullen and Rosemary Mulligan unexpectedly became a national proxy battle over abortion in the United States. But the hard-fought primary also illustrated the overlooked importance of down-ballot contests in America's culture wars. Patrick Wohl offers the dramatic account of a rollercoaster campaign that, after attracting political celebrities...
Publisher
Alternative Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Comics for Choice is an anthology of comics about abortion. As this fundamental reproductive right continues to be stigmatized and jeopardized, over sixty artists and writers have created comics that boldly share their own experiences, and educate readers on the history of abortion, current political struggles, activism, and more. Lawyers, activists, medical professionals, historians, and abortion fund volunteers have teamed up with cartoonists and...
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