Pro-choice is a term used to describe the political and ethical view which maintains that a woman should control her fertility. This entails the guarantee of what supporters term "reproductive rights", which include access to abortion, contraception, sexual education and fertility treatments. Individuals and organisations that seek to support this stance, both in terms of legality and availability, make up the pro-choice movement.
Pro-choice activists believe that abortion should be a legal option for any woman with an unwanted pregnancy. Some see abortion as a last resort, and focus on a number of situations where they feel abortion is a necessary option. Among these situations are those where the woman was raped, her health or life is at risk, contraception was used but failed, or she feels unable to raise a child. Some pro-choice moderates, who would otherwise be willing to accept certain restrictions on abortion, feel that political pragmatism compels them to oppose any such restrictions, as they could be used to form a slippery slope against all abortions.
Pro-choice activists frequently oppose legislative measures that would require abortion providers to make certain statements (some of which are factually disputed) to patients, because they argue that these measures are intended to make obtaining abortions more difficult. These measures fall under the rubric of abortion-specific "informed consent" or "right to know" laws.
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Pro-Choice Public Education Project - A collaboration of nearly 50 pro-choice organizations working together to reach, educate, and energize young people about choice.
Rights Center - US and California medical and legal information for health care consumers, educators, advocates, and activists.
Meta Description: [ Learn more about reproductive rights and NARAL Pro-Choice California. Find out about current issues affecting California women. See what NARAL Pro-Choice California is doing and how you can get involved. ]
Abortion and Reason - Essay attempting to apply logic to the abortion question instead of emotion.
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many obvious concerns are overlooked; there are rights and wrongs; let's try to see
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Abortion and Women's Reproductive Self-Determination - In-depth, extensive examination of the issue of abortion from religious, historical, scientific and moral/ethical perspectives.
Meta Description: [ Discussion of women's reproductive self-determination (the right to choose abortion for the termination of an unwanted pregnancy), examining the legal and moral dimensions of the issue from rational, scientific, religious and moral/ethical perspectives. Interactive participants' forum is also pro... ]
Abortion Is Not a Sin - Essay arguing that the Bible supports abortion and reproductive rights, and the claim that life begins at conception is tantamount to blasphemy.
Meta Description: [ Abortion is not a sin. Pro-life is wrong. The Bible supports abortion and reproductive rights. ]
Abortion Rights - Campaigning for legal reform and the provision of easily accessible, woman friendly, NHS funded abortion services in the UK.
Meta Description: [ Campaigning for legal reform and the provision of easily accessible, woman friendly, NHS funded abortion services in the UK. ]
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: Teaching Why as Well as How - Medical educators offer their perspectives on the social and health benefits of abortion and the need for younger health care professionals to understand the importance of safe abortion.
Meta Description: [ The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. ]
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.
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Ban on Abortion Procedure Violates Women's Rights - Documents a re-awakening of pro-choice activism and a large rally in 2004 in light of legislation threatening choice from President George W. Bush and the GOP dominated Congress. From the college newspaper The Batallion.
Blood Libel - Examines the roots of racism and the fear of sex in history and the pro-life movement.
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.
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Feminist Women's Health Center - Description of abortion procedures, reasons why women seek abortion, personal abortion stories, FAQs.
Meta Description: [ Feminist Women's Health Center provides empowering information about abortion and reproductive freedom - so women may determine their own destinies. Pro-choice.
Covers abortion, birth control, feminism, contraception, menopause, breast health, menstruation, family planning, HIV, emergency cont... ]
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.
Meta Description: [ We're fostering a dialog about reforming paternity laws to make them fairer and more conducive to family planning. ]
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).
I'm Not Sorry - Offers women sharing their positive experiences with abortion. With news, FAQ, archive, forum, and links.
Meta Description: [ A site where women can share positive abortion experiences ]
Issue in Focus: Reproductive Rights - The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism presents news, action alerts, and views on abortion and related issues.
Legalized Abortion and Crime - Paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, explores the possibility that legal abortion has contributed to dropping crime rates.
Meta Description: [ SSRN-The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime by John Donohue, Steven Levitt ]
My Abortion Story - One woman's experience with abortion and why it was the right decision for her.
Partial Birth Abortion - An essay written by pro-choicers, describing how they view both sides of the issue.
Meta Description: [ partial birth abortion - all sides ]
Priority Issues: Abortion - Collection of articles, fact sheets, briefing papers, book reviews, and other resources about laws and issues respecting access to abortion around the world. Center for Reproductive Law and Policy.
Pro Abortion is Pro-Life; Anti-Abortion is Anti-Life - Includes essays, FAQ, links and a forum. Advocates that a child cannot acquire any rights until it is born.
Meta Description: [ Abortion is Pro Life. Anti-Abortion is anti-life. ]
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.
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Pro-Choice Northern Ireland - Pro-Choice discussion group focusing on the issue of abortion in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Pro-Truth.net - The ABC' s of Abortion - Calls abortion an issue of religious freedom, the motives of anti-abortion activists to be political, exposes Christian anti-abortion hypocrisy, and presents evidence that true personhood begins at birth.
Meta Description: [ Regardless of how you feel about sex education, unwanted pregnancy, birth control or abortion, this pro-choice and pro-life book will give you a view of the anti-abortion controversy that we'll guarantee you've never seen before. ]
Refuse and Resist: Abortion on Demand and Without Apology! - Collection of news stories, issue papers, and other materials for reproductive freedom activists.
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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.
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Reproductive Rights: Body Politic - The American Prospect's website containing health information, political articles and debate supporting reproductive rights.
Meta Description: [ A comprehensive Web resource for reproductive
rights issues. From The American Prospect magazine. ]
Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions - Ethicist Daniel Maguire and other scholars discuss moral and religious perspectives on reproductive choice.
Salon - How George Bush Will Ban Abortion - States that Bush is planning for a total ban on abortions, enacted incrementally.
Save Roe - Provides facts on the Supreme Court decision and subsequent legislation, gives stories by women who needed abortions, and chronicles the Bush Administration's actions against abortion and birth control.
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.
Meta Description: [ The legal, medical, theological, and religious history of abortion and contraception from a pro-choice vantage point. Lots of good information to use against the anti-choicer, 'pro-lifer' in your life. ]
Sydney's Abortion - Essay by teenager on why she had an abortion, information on procedures, facts, journal, plus stories and opinions from others.
The Aborted Contract and the Right to Life - Essay presenting the pros and cons of the abortion debate from the vantage point of social contract theory.
Meta Description: [ Abortion, the right to life, and pro-choice and anti-choice moral and ethical considerations. ]
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.
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The Nation - Roe = Dred - George W. Bush's strict constructionism means overturning Roe v. Wade, says Katha Pollitt.
The Seattle Times - The Real Arguments Over Late Abortions - Editorial asserting that the Dilation and Extraction ban signed by Bush is nothing more than a political maneuver to chip away at a woman's right to choose, and the law is so vague that it fails to address important medical issues.
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The State of Roe v. Wade - Reports on a December 1999 survey on U.S. voters attitudes toward abortion and Roe v. Wade.
Meta Description: [ Vist Planned Parenthood to find infromation of sexual health, birth control emergency contraception, abortion rights, and more. ]
Voice for Choice - Campaign for abortion on request throughout the United Kingdom. Web site has information about UK abortion law, news, and other information.
Wax Bush - A documentary focusing exclusively on the current state of women's reproductive rights in America. The film examines the current crisis in women's reproductive freedoms and the systematic attacks by the Bush administration on a woman's right to choose.
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WEL Australia - Issues: Abortion - Women's Electoral League webpages that deal with abortion. Includes WEL's pro-choice policy, newsletter articles and media releases.
Meta Description: [ An index of major pages on the WEL website which deal with abortion. Includes links to WEL policy, newsletter articles and media releases. ]
Why Abortion is Biblical - Asserts that anti-abortion activists misrepresent the biblical record by misquoting it and distorting its original meaning.
Meta Description: [ Why Abortion is Biblical ]
Why Abortion is Moral - Essay challenging six common arguments made against abortion, with links to related essays.
Meta Description: [ Why Abortion is Moral ]
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