Resources -> Recommended Reading List

This list was compiled with the assistance of the American Medical Women Association's (AMWA) Reproductive Health Initiative.

ABORTION

General

Baird DT, Grimes DA, Van Look PF (eds). Modern methods of inducing abortions. London: Blackwell Science, 1995.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Abortion Surveillance: Preliminary Data -- United States, 1994." Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 54 (1997): 1123-1127.

Darney PD. "Who will do the abortions?" Women's Health Issues 3, no. 3 (1993): 158-162.

Hatcher R, Trussell J, et al. Contraceptive Technology, 17th Edition. New York: Irvington Publishers, 1998. This book is the "bible" of reproductive health.

Henshaw SK, Van Vort J. "Abortion services in the United States, 1991 and 1992." Family Planning Perspectives 26 (1994): 100-106, 112.

Hodgson J, Joffe C. Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Abortion Access

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. Reproductive Freedom in the States. New York: 1998. Excellent statistics on state abortion services and access issues.

Henshaw SK. "Factors Hindering Access to Abortion Services." Family Planning Perspectives 27 (1995): 54-59, 87.

Henshaw SK. "The Accessibility of Abortion Services in the United States." Family Planning Perspectives 23 (1991): 246-252, 263.

National Abortion Federation. The Role of Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives in Providing Abortions: Strategies for Expanding Abortion Access. Washington DC: 1997.

National Women's Law Center. Hospital Mergers and the Threat to Women's Reproductive Health Services. Washington DC: 1998.

Abortion and the Law

Annas GJ. "The Supreme Court, Liberty, and Abortion." New England Journal of Medicine 327 (1992): 651-654.

Henshaw SK. "The Effects of Mandatory Delay Laws on Abortion Patients and Providers." Family Planning Perspectives 26 (1996): 228-233.

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).

Abortion Patients

Forrest JD, Torres A. "Why Do Women Have Abortions?" Family Planning Perspectives 20 (1988): 169.

Henshaw SK, Kost K. "Abortion Patients in 1994-1995: Characteristics and Contraceptive Use." Family Planning Perspectives 28 (1996): 140-147, 158.

Westfall JM, Kallail KJ. "Repeat Abortion and Use of Primary Care Health Services." Family Planning Perspectives 27 (1995): 162-165.

International

Maine D, Karkazis K, Bolan N. "The Bad Old Days Are Still Here: Abortion Mortality in Developing Countries." Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 49, no. 5 (1994): 137-142.

Manual Vacuum Aspiration

Blumenthal PD, Remsburg RE. "A Time and Cost Analysis of the Management of Incomplete Abortion with Manual Vacuum Aspiration." International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 45, no. 3 (1994): 261-267.

Greenslade FC, et al. "Summary of Clinical and Programmatic Experience with Manual Vacuum Aspiration." (Part of Advances in Abortion Care issue paper series). Carrboro NC: International Projects Assistance Services, 1993.

Mahomed K, Healy J, Tandon S. "A Comparison of Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) and Sharp Curettage in the Management of Incomplete Abortion." International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 46, no. 1 (1994): 27-32.

Soderstrom RM. "A Manual Vacuum Syringe for Uterine Evacuation." Contemporary Ob/Gyn 36 (1991): 79-83.

Medical

Creinin MD, Park M. "Acceptability of Medical Abortion with Methotrexate and Misoprostol." Contraception 52 (1995): 41-44.

El-Refaey H, Rajasekar D, Abdalla M, et al. "Induction of Abortion with Mifepristone (RU 486) and Oral or Vaginal Misoprostol." New England Journal of Medicine 332 (1995): 983-987.

Grimes DA. "Medical Abortion in Early Pregnancy: A Review of the Evidence." Obstetrics and Gynecology 89 (1997): 790-796.

Schaff EA, Stadalius LS, Eisinger SH, et al. "Vaginal Misoprostol Administered at Home after Mifepristone (RU 486) for Abortion." Journal of Family Practice 44 (1997): 353-360.

Winikoff B. "Acceptability of Medical Abortion in Early Pregnancy." Family Planning Perspectives 27 (1995): 142-148, 185.

Post-Abortion Care

Dagg PKB. "The Psychological Sequelae of Therapeutic Abortion -- Denied and Completed." American Journal of Psychiatry 148 (1991): 578-585.

Greenslade FC, McKay H, Wolf M, et al. "Post-Abortion Care: A Women's Health Initiative to Combat Unsafe Abortion." (Part of Advances in Abortion Care issue paper series). Carrboro NC: International Projects Assistance Services, 1994; 4, no. 1.

Nichols KA, Rasmussen SJ. "Post-Abortion Medical Care: Management of Delayed Complications." Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 49, no. 50 (1994): 165-167.

Stotland NL. "The Myth of the Abortion Trauma Syndrome." Journal of the American Medical Association 268 (1992): 2078-2079.

Rape and Abortion

Holmes MM, Resnick HS, Kilpatrick DG, et al. "Rape-Related Pregnancy: Estimates and Descriptive Characteristics from a National Sample of Women." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 175, no. 2 (1996): 320-324.

Saucer PR. "Correlation between Rates of Rape and Abortion." Psychological Reports 70, no. 3 part 1 (1992): 786.

Second Trimester

Rosenfield A. "The Difficult Issue of Second-Trimester Abortion." New England Journal of Medicine 331, no. 5 (1994): 324-325.

Selective Termination

Evans MI, Drugan A, Bottoms SF, et al. "Attitudes on the Ethics of Abortion, Sex Selection and Selective Pregnancy Termination among Health Care Professionals." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 161, no. 4 (1991): 1092-1099.

Surgical

Darney PD, Morbuch P, Korn A. Protocols on Office Gynecologic Surgery. London: Blackwell Science, 1996.

Edwards J, Creinin M. "Surgical Abortion for Gestations of Less than 6 Weeks." Current Problems in Obstetrics Gynecology and Fertility 20 (Jan/Feb 1997): 11-19.

Glick E. Surgical Abortion. Reno NV: West End Women's Medical Group, 1998.

Hern W. Abortion Practice. Philadelphia PA: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1990.

Third Trimester

The Alan Guttmacher Institute. Late-Term Abortions: Legal Considerations. New York: 1997.

Chervenak FA, McCullough LB, Campbell S. "Is Third Trimester Abortion Justified?" British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 102, no. 6 (1995): 434-435.

Gevers S. "Late Termination of Pregnancy in Cases of Severe Abnormalities in the Fetus." Medicine and Law 17, no. 1 (1998): 83-92.

Last updated July 19, 2000.