Abortion


The Cider House Rules
A Spark of Light
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
The Mothers
Little Fires Everywhere
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
Looking for Jane
Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
Happening
Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanBREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisSexual Politics by Kate Millett
Second Wave Feminism
143 books — 62 voters
The Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksAsking for It by Kate HardingHe's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Ever... by Jessica ValentiBlack Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Third-Wave Feminism
170 books — 69 voters

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyGingerbread by Rachel CohnAnd We Stay by Jenny HubbardThe Truth About Alice by Jennifer MathieuAsk Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann
Abortion in YA Fiction
79 books — 33 voters

The Cider House Rules by John IrvingDaisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidOne Tough Cookie by Delise TorresWaking Rose by Regina DomanThe Fight for Midnight by Dan Solomon
Novels with Abortion as a Subject
195 books — 60 voters
Gianna by Jessica Shaver RenshawOctober Baby by Eric WilsonFire Within by Crystal KelleyShort of a Miracle by Crystal PitroisMiracle on Happy Joe Drive by Helena Hansen
The Abortion Survivors
7 books — 5 voters

Brené Brown
The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one drug-addicted kid, one mental health illness, one sexual assault, one drinking binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being “those people”–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.
Brené Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"

John Irving
Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Wom ...more
John Irving, The Cider House Rules

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