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Abortion: Stories from North and South
Singer, Gail
Film/Video
1984
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Hedges, Chris
Book
2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on co...
A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Guyatt, Gord
Article
1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
Motopu, Comrade
Article
2017
Examining the use of left wing rhetoric by a participant of the pro-life match on Washington to justify right wing ideologies and policies, and the broader impliciations of such tactics.
The Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Foege, Alec
Book
1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1992
A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1994
A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion
McDonnell, Kathleen
Book
1986
McDonnell describes the often conflicting needs and emotions experienced prior to and after abortion.
Planned Parenthood under siege
Article
2015
Women, especially poor women, have already been severely impacted by an avalanche of laws that effectively strip them of being able to obtain what is a legal medical procedure. The Republican vow to d...
The Power of Women United: Against The Current vol. 134
Dawson, Kipp
Article
2008
Interview with Kipp Dawson.
These Salvadoran Women Went to Prison for Suffering Miscarriages
Knapke, Margaret
Article
2015
For many expectant mothers in El Salvador, a largely Catholic Central American country of around 6 million, pregnancy losses -- unexpected, frightening, and tragic -- have been declared intentional an...
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Frank, Thomas
Book
2004
Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramaticall...
Women's rights: What have men got to do with it?: New Internationalist November 2004
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2004
A look at the relations between men and women dealing with equality.

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Citizens for Public Justice
CPJ is a national organization promoting justice in Canadian public affairs, responding politically to God's call for love toward our neighbour and responsibility for our environment. We use research,...

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Abortion
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Margaret Somerville's yucky logic
Diemer, Ulli
2008
This past week, on the twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Morgentaler decision invalidating the existing abortion law, Dr. Somerville has offered up her thoughts on abortion, which she also ...

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Abortion Stays Legal
Article
1991
Bill C-43 was defeated in 1991, keeping abortion legal in Canada.
Pro-Life News/Canada
Vol.2, No.2
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1977
Articles pertaining to Inuit and native rights related to sterlization.
Pro-Life News/Canada
Periodical profile published 1978
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1978