Directory: Top/Society/Issues/Abortion

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.
http://www.policyalmanac.org/culture/archive/crs_abortion_overview.shtml
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Civic Practices Network: Common Ground
Describes how pro-life and pro-choice groups use dialogue and shared concerns to find common ground.
http://www.cpn.org/topics/families/prolife.html
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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.
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Abortion/index.html
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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.
http://www.efn.org/~bsharvy/abortion.html
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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.
http://www.justfacts.com/abortion.htm
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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.]
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/index.htm
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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)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/twenty/watch/abortion.html
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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.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/07/24/late_term/
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Summary of Abortion Laws Around the World
Gives abortion laws and restrictions in over 192 nations and territories.
http://www.pregnantpause.org/lex/world02.htm
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Supreme Court verdict on five provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-744.ZS.html
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