In Contraception And Abortion From The Ancient World To The Renaissance, Riddle showed that women in ancient times relied on herbs to regulate fertility. In this volume, he shows that this ancient knowledge was not lost, but survived in coded form.
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"As politicians, citizens, and families continue the raging national debate on whether it's proper to end human life in the womb, resources like Randy Alcorn's Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments have proven invaluable. With over 75,000 copies in print, this revised and updat…
As politicians, citizens, and families continue the raging national debate on whether it's proper to end human life in the womb, resources like Randy Alcorn's Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments have proven invaluable. With over 75,000 copies in print, this revised and update…
Presents opposing views or "answers" to many arguments used by the Pro-Choice movement as to why abortion should be legal in the United States.
This study examines the role the first cohorts of women physicians in the United States played in shaping the medical subfields of obstetrics and gynecology. Women were trained largely to provide clinical care for women patients in the mid- to late- nineteenth century, yet they …
This dissertation challenges the common framing of “religion” that emerged from international development institutions in the late 1990s, with specific focus on how it has impacted sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) concerns in India. Though this reconsideration of…
This dissertation combines three essays studying the relationship between fertility decisions and labor market inequality. The first chapter studies the effect of providing abortions for free on women's fertility decisions and career outcomes. The second chapter looks at the imp…
Chapter 1 introduces the main research question to be answered: when does personhood begin? The chapter outlines the context of the debate, explains the importance of this issue and its relevance to Christian life, and presents the thesis and methodology of this dissertation.
This thesis is an affective history of abortion as told through the memories from four individuals; two retired medical practitioners who sat on Therapeutic Abortion Committees (TACs) and two women who accessed abortion services in Alberta between 1969 and 1988. Further, my anal…