Banes, Sally, Sheldon Frank and Tem Horwitz.
Our National
Passion-200 Years of Sex in America
. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1976.
Calderone, Mary and Eric Johnson.
The Family Book About Sexuality
. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981.
Corder, Brice and Rhonda Showalter.
Health Science and College Life
. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, 1972.
Denes, Magda.
In Necessity and Sorrow
. New York: Penguin Books Ltd., 1977.
Francke, Linda.
The Ambivalence of Abortion
. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1978.
“Hyde Position Gaining in Congress.”
New Haven Register
: May 24, 1981.
Julty, Sam.
Men’s Bodies Men’s Selves
. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1979.
Noonan, John.
The Morality of Abortion
—
Legal and Historical Perspectives
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.
Peterson, Bill. “Poll finds most Americans ‘pro-choice’.”
New Haven Journal Courier
: June 8, 1981. 22.
Steinem, Gloria. “The Ultimate Invasion of Privacy.”
Ms
., (Feb. 1981), 43-44.
Recommended Bibliography for Students and Teachers
Boston Women’s Health Collective.
Our Bodies, Ourselves
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.
An excellent source book for a wide range of female topics. Easy reading, accurate information, good diagrams/pictures, and personal insights. The chapter on abortion includes history, procedures, how to select a good facility, feelings about abortion and personal experiences.
Calderone, Mary and Eric Johnson.
The Family Book About Sexuality
. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1981.
An excellent family sexuality source book written in a very readable style. A good section on abortion in a chapter on Family Planning that includes pro and con abortion points of view along with the positions of The American Psychiatric Association, The American Medical Association and The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Denes, Magda.
In Necessity and Sorrow
. New York: Penguin Books Ltd., 1977.
I strongly recommend reading this book by a psychoanalyst and mother of two who had an abortion herself. She returns to the abortion hospital to interview patients and those accompanying them-partners, family, and with the hospital staff from doctors on down to orderlies. Magda gains insight into the moral and emotional dilemma that all connected with abortion must deal with.
Francke, Linda.
The Ambivalence of Abortion
. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1978.
If only one book is to be read on the subject of abortion let it be this one. Francke is a writer and a mother of three children who had an abortion herself. She writes about her and other women’s experiences by indepth interviews of the women, their partners and families and she includes how the abortions affected their relationships and their lives.
Julty, Sam.
Men’s Bodies Men’s Selves
. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1979.
The male counter part to the female
Our Bodies
,
Ourselves
. It covers a wide range of topics pertaining to males. Good reference and resource material. Excellent section on abortion from the male point of view in a chapter on the consequences of sex.
McCoy, Kathy and Charles Wibbelsman.
The Teenage Body Book
. New York: Wallaby Pocket Books, 1978.
An excellent source book for teenagers. Easy reading with lots of personal issues and typical questions and answers. A short section on abortion in the chapter on pregnancy and parenthood.
