INFORMATIONAL LINKS
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- Pro-Choice Libertarians statement: “Libertarian principles versus abortion prohibition”
- Libertarian Party platforms, including reproductive rights and abortion-related planks since 1972
- ALF paper on “Abortion”, (Association of Libertarian Feminists website), Sharon Presley and Robert Cooke (approx. 13 pages)
- “A Libertarian Feminist Case for Abortion Rights”, Sharon Presley, 2012 (shorter/updated restatement of the above)
- Libertarians And Abortion Restrictions: Where’s The Outrage?, Jessie Hill, Daily Caller, 2016
- “Abortion”, Wendy McElroy
- “The Libertarian stand on abortion”, Harry Browne, 1998
- “The Pro-Life/Pro-Choice Libertarian”, BeingLibertarian, 2016
- “Why Libertarians should be Pro-Choice regarding Abortion”, Jan Narveson
- “Should Pro-Choice Libertarians Support the Women’s Health Protection Act?” (vs. state laws placing unnecessary restrictions on abortion patients and clinics), Reason, 2014
- “Congress Has No Authority to Pass a Federal Abortion Ban. And yet: The Commerce Clause is magic!, say lawmakers”,
Reason, 2015 - “The Abortion Battle Ahead—and a Way Out, Support easier access to contraception”, Reason, 2016
- “Pill-Induced Abortions on the Rise in America. Why That’s a Good Thing”, Reason, 2016
- “Anti-Abortion Crusade is Anti-Life, Anti-Rights, Anti-Reason”, TheObjectiveStandard.com, 2013
- “Doesn’t a fetus have a right to be inside the body of the woman?”, Capitalism.org
- “Actually We Should Encourage Women Who Have Abortions to Donate Fetal Tissue to Science”, Reason, 2015
- Wikipedia article Libertarian perspectives on abortion
- 8 Polls Describe U.S. pro-choice majority, National Abortion Rights Action League, January 2017
- “About seven-in-ten Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade”, Pew Research, January 2017
- “Quinnipiac Poll: Voters favor Roe, oppose cutting Planned Parenthood funds”, Politico.com, 2017; Quinnipiac University national poll press release
- “Support for Legal Abortion at Highest Level Since 1995, But Partisan Gap Widening”, Reason, 2016
- “Less Than One-Third of Americans Want to See Roe v. Wade Overturned”, Reason, 2017
- Fact Sheet: Induced Abortion in the United States, Guttmacher Institute, 2017
- “U.S. Abortion Rate Falls To Lowest Level Since Roe v. Wade”, National Public Radio, 2017
- Maternal mortality, World Health Organization, 2015
- “What’s the Difference Between a Medical and Surgical Abortion?”, Glamour, 2016
- “Five Decades After Roe v. Wade, Doctors Train to Keep Abortion Out of the Shadows”, Village Voice, 2017
- “This Is Why People Get Second-Trimester Abortions”, Self.com, 2017
- “Late-Term Abortions Are Rare and ‘Partial Birth Abortions’ Illegal. Why Do They Keep Dominating the Reproductive-Rights Debate?”, Reason, 2016
- “Why the March for Science Matters to Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice”, ReWire, 2017
- “The 200-Year Fight for Abortion Access”, New York Magazine, 2017
- History of Abortion in the U.S., Our Bodies Ourselves
- “What Was the Pro-Life Movement Like Before Roe v. Wade?”, NC Register, 2017
- An Overview of Abortion Laws with state by state chart, Guttmacher Institute, 2016
- “It’s Still Shockingly Hard to Get an Abortion in Much of America”, Vice.com, 2016
- “U.S. Passed 47 New Anti-Abortion Laws in 2015”, Reason magazine, 2015
- “19 States Passed 60 New Abortion Restrictions in 2016“, The Intercept, 2016
- “168 Anti-Abortion Bills Have Already Been Introduced In 2017”, Self.com, 2017
- “The Scariest Abortion Restrictions To Watch For In 2017″, Getty/Huffington Post, 2017
- “Kentucky becomes 19th state to ban abortions after 20 weeks into pregnancy”, Washington Times, Jan. 2017
- “Texas Law Would Permit Doctors to Lie to Patients About the Health of Their Fetuses”, Reason, 2017
- “What Is The Personhood Bill? HR 586 Is An Affront To Women”, Bustle.com, 2017
- “How Texas is beating the Supreme Court on abortion”, Politico.com, 2017
- Wikipedia: Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision (and subsequent related decisions)
- Landmark Supreme Court case “Roe vs Wade” (1973), PBS, 2006
- Audio of argument before the Supreme Court in “Roe vs Wade” case, C-SPAN, December 13, 1971
- “How Trump’s Supreme Court Could Overturn Roe v. Wade Without Overturning It”, 2017
- “The Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t the biggest threat to abortion rights”, 2017
- “SC Sen. Graham warns Gorsuch to be prepared for abortion case” (i.e., the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act), McClatchy News Service, 2017
- “Anti-Abortion Activists Tried to Oust Pro-Choice State Judges. They Failed Miserably”, Slate, 2016
- “Why Oklahoma’s Anti-Abortion Fetal “Host” Bill Is So Noxiously Unconstitutional”, Slate.com, 2017
REPUBLICAN PROHIBITIONISTS’ MOTIVATIONS
- The Real Origins of the Religious Right” (in GOP politics), Politico.com, 2014
- Samantha Bee video exposes details of previously pro-choice GOP adoption of abortion issue
- The Truth About Christianity And Abortion, Huffington Post, 2017
- “The Death of Pro-Choice Republicans”, Reason, 2015
- Abortion opponents ask government to enforce a theological position, St. Louise Post-Dispatch, 2017
- “How Republicans’ Obsession with Fetuses Has Reached Insane New Heights“, Vice.com, 2016
- “The failure of the pro-life movement”, (it’s about money and power), Holland Sentinel, 2017
- “9 Things Pro-Life Advocates Can Actually Do To Fight For The Lives Of Children”, Romper.com, 2017
- “Here’s what GOP state legislators are really going for with all these anti-abortion bills”, Mic.com, 2017
- “Anti-Abortion Violence: America’s Forgotten Terrorism”, Anti-Defamation League, 2012
- “Anti-Choice Violence and Intimidation“, National Abortion Rights Action League, 2016
- “Opinion: If abortion rights fall, LGBT rights are next“, Washington Post, 2017
- “Video: Oklahoma State Rep says rape and incest are the ‘will of God’ in abortion bill hearing“, RawStory.com
- “Oklahoma lawmaker defends pregnancy from rape and incest as ‘beauty from ashes’”, Washington Post, 2017
- “Why It’s Become So Hard to Get an Abortion (regulations as punishment)”, The New Yorker, 2017
- “Punishment of Women Is Already Happening”, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, 2017
- “Hidden Persuaders: The unheralded gains of the pro-life movement”, The Weekly Standard, 2011
- “How the pro-life movement is winning — even with Obama in office” (‘Obamacare’ mobilized prohibitionists), Vox.com, 2015
- “Millennials Conservative About Casual Sex, Liberal About Same-Sex Marriage, Conflicted About A Lot in New Religion and Sexuality Survey”, Reason, 2015
- “Rand Paul’s Strange Abortion Incoherence in the Debate: By trying to straddle the federalism divide on abortion, his stance seems confusing and unconvincing to all sides”, Reason, 2016
REPUBLICAN PROHIBITIONISTS’ ACTIONS
- “GOP-dominated state legislatures are back in session — working hard to take away women’s rights”, Salon, 2017
- “When Conservatives Love Overregulation”, Reason Magazine, 2016
- “How Republicans’ Obsession with Fetuses Has Reached Insane New Heights”, 2016, Vice.com, 2016
- “Will Congressional Republicans Betray Limited-Government Principles When it Comes to Abortion? Of Course”, Reason, 2015
- “‘Pro-Life’ Congressman Who Urged Abortions for Ex-Wife and Mistress Is Running Again”, US News, 2013
- “Where do right-wingers get all these anti-choice laws? There is literally a book”, Salon, 2017
- “Some GOP lawmakers push against Oklahoma anti-abortion bills”, Associated Press, 2017
- “Here’s what GOP state legislators are really going for with all these anti-abortion bills”, Mic.com, 2017
- “Threats against abortion clinics have reached a 20 year high: Report”, NY Daily News, 2017. Report at “2016 National Clinic Violence Survey 2016″ , Feminist Majority Foundation, 2017.
- “Anti-Abortion Groups Push For Births Of Dying Babies (Video)”, OpposingViews.com, 2017
CONSEQUENCES OF PROHIBITION FOR WOMEN
- “New Research Shows How Poor Women Are Effectively Banned From Getting Abortions”, New York Magazine, 2017
- “Texas woman forced to deliver stillborn baby due to abortion ban”, New York Times, 2016
- “Arrested for Having a Miscarriage? 7 Appalling Instances Where Pregnant Women Were Criminalized”, 2014
- “US Media Don’t Need to Look Abroad to Find an Abortion Crisis, Janine Jackson, Common Dreams, 2016
- “UT Researchers Find Travel Distance to Abortion Clinic Directly Impacts Access”, Houston Press, 2917 (Full report)
- “Arrested for Having a Miscarriage? 7 Appalling Instances Where Pregnant Women Were Criminalized“, Alternet, 2014
- “What the War on Reproductive Rights Has to do With Poverty and Race”, Yes Magazine, 2016
- “Pregnant, and No Civil Rights”, New York Times, 2014
- “Which policies lead to less abortion? The ACA, state law & The Supreme Court”, Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2017
- “Black Markets, Bus Trips: Abortion’s Future If Roe v. Wade Is Reversed”, Vocativ, 2017
- “Women as Incubators: How US Law Dehumanizes Pregnant Women”, Vice.com, 2017
CONSEQUENCES OF PROHIBITION FOR FETUSES
- “How the Pro-Life Movement Endangers the Unborn”, Reason, 2015
- “Making abortion illegal does not reduce number of women having terminations, study concludes“, (in fact increases it), the Independent, 2016
- “Abortion clinic numbers down, second trimester procedures up since law’s passage, study shows”, Dallas News, 2017
- “Second- and third-trimester abortions increased after Texas clinics closed”, San Antonio Express, 2017
- “Born Unwanted: Developmental Effects of Denied Abortion“, Birth Psychology, 1998
- “‘I would have had an abortion’: Mom at center of ‘wrongful birth’ debate upset at Texas bill”, Fox2Now, 2017
- “Americans generally support reproductive choice — so why does the GOP keep winning on abortion?”, Salon, 2017
- “Red-state progressives fight to protect abortion rights: Turning the tables on right-wing lawmakers”, Salon, 2013
- “5 Ways To Fight Back Against The New Anti-Abortion Law”, Refinery29.com, 2017
- “7 Polish Women Who Fought for Abortion Rights Offer Advice to American Women Doing the Same”, New York Magazine, 2017
- “Donning black, staging walkouts: Pro-choice campaigners protest restrictive abortion laws on International Women’s Day”, BigNewsnetwork.com, 2017
- “Women Dress in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Robes to Protest Anti-Abortion Laws at Texas Capitol”, San Antonio Current, 2017
- “‘Abortion Warriors’: An Inside Look at the People Who Fund Abortions”, Rewire News, 2017
- “In the Fight for Abortion Clinic Access, a Houston Nonprofit Offers a Helping Hand—and a Passenger Seat”, Houstonian Magazine, 2016
- “How These Neon Vests Became the Uniform of Abortion Clinic Defenders Nationwide; The Clinic Vest Project helps band volunteers together”, Racked.com, 2016
- “The secret home abortion movement that started in LA two years before Roe v. Wade”, KPPC radio, 2017
- “A Dutch website is helping Americans who want to safely end early pregnancies”, ThinkProgress.org, 2017
- “When Buffalo sent Operation Rescue packing”, Socialist Worker, 2017
- “Abortion Stories Women Tell”, HBO, 2017
- “American women share the stories of their abortions:In states where a series of bills aim to restrict access to the procedure, women are speaking out”, Al Jazeera, 2017
- “Secrecy Isn’t The Same As Privacy: Why Some Women Don’t Talk About Their Abortions”, WBUR, 2017
- “Women rarely regret their abortions. Why don’t we believe them?”, 2015 (Based on this study.)
- “More Men Are Sharing Their Abortion Stories and Fighting for Reproductive Rights”,February 19, 2016
- “I Had a Second Trimester Abortion & I Am Sick Of Hearing Politicians’ Opinions About It”, Bustle.com, 2016
- Fitz: Harrowing, private agony clashes with Arizona’s abortion laws, Arizona Daily Star, 2017
- “’I Know What it’s Like’: The 80-Something Abortion Pioneer Who Just Won’t Quit”, 2016
- “‘I would have had an abortion’: Mom at center of ‘wrongful birth’ debate upset at Texas bill”, CNN, 2017
- “What My Abortion Made Me Realize About Reproductive Rights”, Teen Vogue, 2017
- “How My Illegal Abortion Affirms My Belief in the Right To Choose”, Jewish Daily Forward, 2017
- “Catholic Congressman Tim Ryan on Why He No Longer Opposes Abortion”, Reason, 2015
- “Interview with Dr. Susan Robinson”, (provides third-trimester abortions), The HairPin.com, 2013
- “Abortion Provider: Abortions Performed Out of ‘Christian Compassion'”, The Libertarian Republic, 2017
- “This Texas abortion doctor suffers daily threats and protests — here’s why he says he’ll never leave”, Business Insider, 2017
- 41 Things You Should Know About Abortions And The Doctors Who Perform Them (providers’ comments), Buzzfeed, 2017
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