Constitutional Law: Abortion: Volume 2 Chapter 1: Pro-Choice Arguments

Constitutional Law: Abortion: Pro-Choice Arguments

Pro-Choice Arguments

• Pro-Choice Public Education Project    - A collaboration of nearly 50 pro-choice organizations working together to reach, educate, and energize young people about choice.

• The Aborted Contract - The pros and cons of the abortion debate presented from the vantage point of social contract theory.
• Abortion: Education through Information - Overview of the abortion issue, including Roe v. Wade, mifepristone as an alternative to surgical abortion, and links to information and activism.
• Abortion and Reason - Essay attempting to apply logic to the abortion question instead of emotion.
• Abortion and Women's Reproductive Self-Determination - In-depth, extensive examination of the issue of abortion from religious, historical, scientific and moral/ethical perspectives.
• Abortion Rights Activist Home Page - Information about clinic violence and other concerns related to reproductive rights.
• The Abortion Rights Struggle: Prochoice vs. Anti - A pro-choice website "letting pro-choice and anti-choice activists make their case in their own words" through quotations and links.
• An Abortion Story - One young woman's personal account of her mixed emotions during her abortion.
• Abortion's Unexpected Side Effects? - Women.com visitors discuss a recent study suggesting that abortion may be linked to a drop in U.S. crime rates.
• Against Murdering Babies (Sorta) - The anti-abortion position usually includes some exceptions. Does that really work?
• alt.support.abortion.moderated - Home page for a newsgroup which functions as a support forum for pro-choice advocates who would like to share their advocacy experiences, voice their concerns, and/or to provide public information.
• Biblical Pro Choice - Presents four Pro-Choice arguments based on specific Bible passages. Also gives rebuttals to Pro-Life Biblical arguments.
• Body Politic Net News Home - An on-line service for the "pro-choice, pro-democracy" community. Excerpts from the Body Politic magazine. Relevant book reviews.
• Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program - 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.
• Feminist Majority Foundation - National Clinic Access Project - Organization leads efforts to keep women's health clinics open in the face of violence and harassment by abortion opponents.
• Fight 4 Choice - Pro-choice activist site keeping tabs on the Bush administration, congress and the courts' anti-choice activities
• Friends of Choice for Men - Site advocates that fathers are entitled to a reproductive "choice", and should be allowed to terminate their parental rights and responsibilities during a limited period.
• From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond - A five-segment audio adaptation of the video trilogy titled From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond (in Real Audio).
• If Men Got Pregnant, Abortion Would Be A Sacrament! -- A review - Collection of personal experiences written by women who had abortions - collected by Helen Forelle.
• Partial Birth Abortion - An essay written by pro-choicers, describing how they view both sides of the issue.
• Pro Abortion is Pro-Life; Anti-Abortion is Anti-Life - Essays, faq, links and a forum. Advocates that "a child cannot acquire any rights until it is born."
• Pro Life, No Choice -- by Pam Squyres - 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.
• Pro-Choice - A webring of sites about and by pro-choicers.
• Pro-Choice Resource Center - Information on education, networking, and funding for prochoice activists.
• Pro-Choice Views - about.com - A starting place for exploring Pro-Choice Views, with original content and links to other websites.
• Religion and Choice: Articles by Respected Theologians - Collected essays about Christian and Jewish views on abortion, interpretation of Biblical teachings, and moral aspects of reproductive choices. From Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
• Reproductive Health & Rights Center - US and California medical and legal information for health care consumers, educators, advocates, and activists.
• Responsible Use of Choice - Author argues that there are more facets to the abortion issue than pro-choice and pro-life.
• Roe v. Wade: Constitutional Privacy & Abortion Rights - Commentary and links on reproductive freedom and judicial activism on the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
• The State of Roe v. Wade - Reports on a December 1999 survey on U.S. voters attitudes toward abortion and Roe v. Wade.
• Sunshine for Women: Abortion with an Attitude - Information on the legal, medical, theological, and religious history of abortion and contraception from a pro-choice vantage point.
• Voice for Choice - Campaign for abortion on request throughout the United Kingdom. Web site has information about UK abortion law, news, and other information.
• WEL Australia - Issues: Abortion - Women's Electoral League webpages that deal with abortion. Includes WEL's pro-choice policy, newsletter articles and media releases.

• Legalized Abortion and Crime - Paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, explores the possibility that legal abortion has contributed to dropping crime rates. (April, 2000)

Constitutional Law: Abortion: Volume 1 Chapter 1: Introduction