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  • Reproduction Reconceived

    Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade

    by Sara Matthiesen ...
    Series Book 5 - Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
    The landmark case Roe v. Wade redefined family: it is now commonplace for Americans to treat having children as a choice. But the historic decision also coincided with widening inequality, an ongoing trend that continues to make choice more myth than reality. In this new and timely history, Matthiesen shows how the effects of incarceration, for-profit healthcare, disease, and poverty have been ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • When Roe Fell

    How Barriers, Inequities, and Systemic Failures of Justice in Abortion Became Visible

    by Barbara A. Alvarez, Whitney Arey, Danielle Bessett, Micki Burdick, Diana Greene Foster, Lori Freedman, Jenny Higgins, Jessie Hill, Erin Johnson, Klaira Lerma, Ophra Leyser-Whalen, Sara Matthiesen, Michelle L. McGowan, Jenny O'Donnell, Meredith Pensak, Lindsay Rae Ruhr, Jessica Sanders, Jane Seymour, Kelly Ward, Tracy A. Weitz, Alexandra Woodcock ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    When Roe Fell examines the history, politics, and practical experiences of abortion leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, placing this judicial decision in a longer history of abortion in the United States. Contributors delve into what the end of Roe revealed about abortion seekers, abortion provision, and abortion advocacy, demystifying abortion and abortion research, laying bare common ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

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  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Turnaway Study

    The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion

    by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D ...
    “If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” —Gloria SteinemThe “remarkable” (The New Yorker) landmark study of the consequences on women’s lives—emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological—of receiving versus being denied an abortion that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Indigenous Experiences of Pregnancy and Birth

    Edited by Jaime Cidro, Hannah Tait Neufeld ...
    Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings, and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained Indigenous women and their families since time immemorial. Years of colonization, however, have impacted the degree to which women have choice in the place and ways they carry and deliver their babies. As nations such as ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • People's Science

    Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier

    by Ruha Benjamin ...
    Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Generation Roe

    Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement

    by Sarah Erdreich ...
    Inextricably connected to issues of autonomy, privacy, and sexuality, the abortion debate remains home base for the culture wars in America. Yet, there is more common ground than meets the eye in favor of choice. Sarah Erdreich’s Generation Roe delves into phenomena such as "abortion-recovery counseling," "crisis pregnancy centers," and the infamous anti-choice "black children are an endangered ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Without Apology

    Writings on Abortion in Canada

    Edited by Shannon Stettner ...
    Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually those of the leaders of women’s and abortion rights organizations, women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Dispatches from the Abortion Wars

    The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

    by Carole Joffe ...
    Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to accessMore than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigma—cultivated by the religious right ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Tearing Us Apart

    How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing

    by Ryan T. Anderson, Alexandra DeSanctis ...
    The political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson, bestselling author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, teams up with the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis to expose the catastrophic failure—social, political, legal, and personal—of legalized abortion.Hope in the Ruins of RoeNow that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion law to the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

    Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

    by Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

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  • How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America

    Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex

    by Christina Page ...
    A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth-control advocates (historically) and pro-choice organizations (currently) have formed the bedrock of freedoms few Americans would choose to live ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD