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- Abortion - What Do You Think? - Online gallery which welcomes artwork from both sides of the abortion issue. Currently, most of the art is from a pro-life perspective.
- Abortion: All Sides of the Issue - ReligiousTolerance.org site describes the issues and various religious and ethical perspectives.
- Abortion and Ethics - Effective meta-site containing facilitated access to relevant articles, books, court decisions, and current news articles. Biographical guide, discussion forum, Internet resources.
- The Abortion Debate - One person's attempt to take a rational look at the abortion debate, exposing flaws in the arguments on both sides. Site has excerpt from book for sale.
- Abortion Debates and Polls - Pro and Con forum.
- Abortion: History of Abortion in the United States - Article on the history of abortion in the United States, plus links to further information on abortion in the US and around the world. Includes prochoice and prolife links.
- Abortion in Law, History, and Religion - Outlines the history of abortion, restrictions on it, different religious views of abortion, and its current and evolving legal status around the world.
- Abortion Issues - About.com - Information, features, and web links on the issue and on pro-life and pro-choice views.
- Abortion Law Development: A Brief Overview - An overview of legislative issues and court rulings affecting the abortion issue, including federal funding of abortion, partial birth abortion, parental notification, and spousal consent.
- Abortion Policies: A Global Review - United Nations Population Division report on abortion laws and policies around the world, including a country-by-country survey. [Documents are in PDF and DOC formats.]
- AbortionDebate.org - Offers discussion forum for both sides of the issue, classified by topic.
- About: Women's Issues - Abortion Statistics - Abortion statistics reflecting world abortions, United States abortions, demographics of women receiving abortions and reasons for obtaining an abortion.
- About: Women's Issues - Partial Birth Abortion - Gives the history and controversy of partial birth abortion, including the current status in the government.
- Against Murdering Babies (Sorta) - Musings about how the anti-abortion position usually includes some exceptions, and the pro-choice position is not necessarily pro-abortion.
- Almanac of Policy Issues: Abortion - News, background information, and links on abortion policy, including Roe v. Wade, RU-486, fetal tissue research, and related issues.
- The Atlantic Online: Abortion - A collection of articles published in the magazine between 1965 and 1997. Topics include abortion in American history and a variety of individual perspectives on the issue.
- Civic Practices Network: Common Ground - Describes how pro-life and pro-choice groups use dialogue and shared concerns to find common ground.
- A Doctor's Right to Choose - Gives the views from the medical profession's standpoint on political actions that could hamper the types of procedures performed on women ending pregnancies. From Salon Magazine.
- Fairfield County Weekly: Roe v. Wade - Five articles about abortion in America before the Roe v. Wade decision. One is a personal account of the reasons for being a pro-life activist. The other four look at various aspects of the history of abortion in the U.S., from a pro-choice perspective.
- Fetal Psychology - Research study published in Psychology Today (Oct. 1998) addresses the relative developmental capabilities of the human fetus at particular gestation points. Relevant to abortion considerations.
- Frontline: Abortion Clinic - A PBS archived documentary on an abortion clinic in Chester, Pennsylvania, along with an investigation on the women who went there and why. (April 18, 1983)
- Induced Abortion - Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System - Statistics about abortion in Canada, with comparisons to data from other countries.
- Is it Possible to be both “Pro-Life” and “Pro-Choice”? - Essay by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan seeking a middle ground in the abortion debate.
- Just Facts - Abortion - Large collection of short "facts" about scientific, constitutional, political and other aspects of the abortion debate. Fully footnoted to identify the sources of the information.
- Kaiser Daily Health Reports: Reproductive Health - Daily reports on reproductive issues; often includes abortion-related news.
- The Morality of Abortion: A Critique - Personal philosophical essay that concludes that both pro-choice and pro-life positions, as understood by the author, contain anti-intuitive premises.
- On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position - Principled yet pragmatic, Lincoln's stand on slavery offers a basis for a new politics of civility that is at once anti-abortion and pro-choice. Published in the Atlantic Monthly, September 1995.
- Planned Parenthood v. Casey - Supreme Court verdict on five provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982.
- Pro Choice Talk - An issue neutral, free public forum organization for abortion debate. Contains articles, essays, member posted facts, quotes and different views on the legal abortion issue.
- Resources on Abortion - Includes definitions of important terms, background information on abortion law, news stories about the issue, and various opinions. Produced for the Ohio University Computer Assisted Language Learning Lab.
- The Right to Incite - Question: Did anti-abortion activists have a legal right to post information about doctors who perform abortions?
- Roe v. Wade (1973) - The U.S. Supreme Court decision which struck down many state laws restricting abortion. At the Legal Information Institue (Cornell University).
- RU486 and the Abortion Issue, by Cartoonists - Collection of political cartoons about the abortion issue from newspaper editorial cartoonists around the world.
- Should Abortion Be Legalised in Queensland, Australia? - Student's argumentative essay on the social issues and legislation on abortion in the state of Queensland, Australia, including links to related sites.
- Stenberg v. Carhart - U.S. Supreme Court opinions on the controversial Nebraska partial-birth abortion case. Hosted by Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
- Summary of Abortion Laws Around the World - Gives abortion laws and restrictions in over 192 nations and territories.
- Surveillance and Research - Abortion - Provides the latest statistics on abortion in America, grouped by demographics and trimester when abortions were sought. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [Adobe Acrobat Reader required].
- Ultimate Abortion Law Homepage - Text and commentary on Roe v. Wade and its successors. Other legal elements of abortion issue including state and canon law.
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