Repro Ethics

Palm, S. (2019). A Long Walk to Reproductive Freedom: Reconceiving Theologies of Abortion in South Africa. In Reconceiving reproductive health: Theological and Christian ethical reflections, edited by Manitza Kotzé, Nadia Marais & Nina Müller van Velden, pp. 219-46. Capetown, South Africa: AOSIS

Tauer, C. A. (1995). Abortion: Embodiment and Prenatal Development. In Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine, edited by Lisa S. Cahill and Margaret Farley, 75-92. Dordrecht: Neth. and Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic.

Academic Journal Articles

Armstrong, A.S. (2020). Surrogate Flesh: Race, Redemption, and the Cultural Production of Fetal Personhood. Journal of Ecumenical Studies 55(4), 518-543. doi:10.1353/ecu.2020.0044

Beattie, T. (2010). Catholicism, Choice and Consciousness: A Feminist Theological Perspective on Abortion. International Journal of Public Theology 4(1): 51-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187251710X12578338897863.

Bechtel, D. R. (1993). Women, Choice, and Abortion: Another Look at Biblical Traditions. Prism 8 (1): 74-89.

Bond, T. M. Faithful Voices: Creating a Womanist Theo-Ethic of Reproductive Justice (PhD diss.). Claremont School of Theology, 2020.

Castuera, I. (2017). A Social History of Christian Thought on Abortion: Ambiguity vs. Certainty in Moral Debate. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 76(1): 121–227

Cooper, T. (2016). Race, Class, and Abortion: How Liberation Theology Enhances the Demand for Reproductive Justice. Feminist Theology 24(3):226-244. doi:10.1177/0966735015627970

Dunnett, D. E. (1990). Evangelicals and Abortion. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 33 (2): 215-225.

Dunstan, G.R. (1984). The moral status of the human embryo: a tradition recalled. Journal of Medical Ethics 10(1):38-44.

Ellison, L. (2008). Abortion and the Politics of God: Patient Narratives and Public Rhetoric in the American Abortion Debate. (PhD diss.). Harvard University.

Gebara, I. (1995). The abortion debate in Brazil: A report from an ecofeminist philosopher under siege. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 11(2):129-135

Haker, H. (2006). Reproductive Autonomy in Light of Responsible Parenthood. Harvard Divinity Bulletin 34(1):44-52.

Jung, P. B. (1988). Abortion and Organ Donation: Christian Reflections on Bodily Life Support. Journal of Religious Ethics 16(2): 273-305.

Kamitsuka, M. (2018). Unwanted Pregnancy, Abortion, and Maternal Authority: A Prochoice Theological Argument. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 34(2), 41–57. https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.34.2.05

Kissling, F. (2005). Is There Life after Roe? How To Think About the Fetus. Conscience; Washington XXV(3)

Leath, J. (2014). Out of Places, Please! Demystifying Opposition to Procreative Choice in Afro-Diasporic Communities in the United States. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 30(1):156-165

Maguire, M. R. (1985). Personhood, Covenant, and Abortion. American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 6(1): 28-46

Moultrie, M. (2017). #BlackBabiesMatter: Analyzing Black Religious Media in Conservative and Progressive Evangelical Communities. Religions 8(11): 255. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel8110255

Reinhardt-Simpson, A. (2016). Theology Outside the Clinic. CrossCurrents 66(4): 501-519

Rudy, K. (1994). Thinking Through the Ethics of Abortion. Theology Today 51(2): 235-248.

Ruether, R. R. (2008). Women, Reproductive Rights and the Catholic Church. Feminist Theology 16 (2): 184-193.

Simmons, P. (1996). Biblical Authority and the Not-So Strange Silence of Scripture about Abortion. Christian Bioethics 2(1): 66-82

Smith, A. (2005). Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice. NWSA Journal 17(1): 119-140.

Tauer, C. A. (1985). Personhood and Human Embryos and Fetuses. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine 10(3): 253–266. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/10.3.253

Traina, C. LH. (2018). Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Unwanted Pregnancy, Mercy, and Solidarity. Journal of Religious Ethics 46(4):658-681.

Ward, R. B. (1993). The Use of the Bible in the Abortion Debate. Louis U. Pub. L. Review 13: 391-408

Whitten-Andrews, J. (2018). Calling for a Pro-Love Movement: A Contextualized Theo-Ethical Examination of Reproductive Health Care and Abortion in the United States. Feminist Theology 26(2): 147-159.

Miscellaneous Web Resources

5 Facts About the Abortion Debate in America - Michael Lipka

AABA Statement on Race & Racism - American Association of Biological Anthropologists

A Short History of Eugenics Thought and Practice - Dennis Sullivan

Harlow's Monkey - An Unapologetic Look at Transracial and Transnational Adoption - JaeRan Kim

Lost Daughters - Writing Adoption from a Place of Empowerment and Peace - thelostdaughters.com

Population & Reproductive Health - Smith College Libraries

Reproductive Justice - sistersong.net

The Evangelical Adoption Crusade - Kathryn Joyce

The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project - Brandeis University

The Margret Sanger Papers Project - sanger.hosting.nyu.edu