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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural conversation on abortion. A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people reclaiming the sole...
3) Take my hand
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Language
English
Description
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Reproductive rights have been hot-button issues for generations, and recent legal decisions have put these arguments back in the spotlight. Learn about the women of color who are leading a movement to protect reproductive rights"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
The child thief volume 1
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
America in 2105 is beset with mass inequality, poverty and increasingly large numbers of the poor. A fractured America ushers in an authoritarian government that promises to solve these problems by redistributing children born to the poor to be adopted by the rich. Robin, a single teen mother, fell within the scope of the scheme and lost her baby two years ago. A life of factory work doesn't provide much hope until she stumbles upon a group of misfits...
8) Plan A
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"[This book] brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking and illuminating look at the state of abortion access in America and the first long-term study of the consequences--emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological--of receiving versus being denied an abortion on women's lives"--
A team of psychologists, epidemiologists, demographers, nursing scholars, and public health researchers set out to discover the effect of receiving versus being denied an abortion...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With expertise across politics and religion, two award-winning New York Times journalists show how the battle over Roe, no matter your view on abortion, symbolizes a miscarriage of the ideals America promised: democracy, morality and freedom, while inadvertently laying out a roadmap for how we might make our way forward in this new America.
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