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I told my mum I was going on an R.E. trip and I needed to be at Piccadilly Bus Station for seven o'clock in the morning, in order to get to the clinic by half past eight ...What do you know about abortion? What do you think about it? Why can we debate it as an idea, but not talk ...about it as an experience? With one in three women in the UK having had an abortion I Told My Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip ...explores what seems to be one of society's last taboos. A play written for a young, multi-talented female ensemble, I Told My Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip ...uses verbatim text, live music, beats and rhyme to portray the stories of real women who've experienced pregnancy and abortion. This funny, frank, and moving play is about as far from a run-of-the-mill sexual health lecture as is imaginable. I Told My Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip ...premiered at Contact, Manchester on 1 February 2017, in a co-production with 20 Stories High
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The ethics of creating-or declining to create-human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on self-creation ; and discussions of procreative rights and responsibilities, genetic engineering, and future generations.
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An examination of how the abortion issue is being faced around the world. After a brief historical introduction, it explores the legal statutes pertaining to abortion in selected countries; reports on public attitudes towards abortion; and discusses nation's policies regarding po...pulation control.
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An examination of how the abortion issue is being faced around the world. After a brief historical introduction, it explores the legal statutes pertaining to abortion in selected countries; reports on public attitudes towards abortion; and discusses nation's policies regarding po...pulation control.
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Considers the status of abortion in Europe in the 1990s. Each chapter provides an overview of abortion in the subject country, including the historical background; the current legal, medical and social situation; and the political forces for and against abortion.
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A collection of 92 documents from congressional hearings, US Supreme Court decisions, government reports, biographical accounts and news stories which illustrate the controversial history of abortion in the US. The text focuses on Roe v. Wade in 1973, but also includes cases befo...re and since.
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A history of the abortion abolition campaign from Roe v Wade to the 1996 election, the author explores the subject historically, sociologically, theologically and politically, arguing for deepened understanding of pro-lifers. The Catholic, social movement and direct action angles... are all examined.
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This comprehensive volume analyzes Chinese birth policies and population developments from the founding of the People's Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is on China's 'Hardship Number One Under Heaven': the highly controversial one-child campaign, and the violent cl...ash between family strategies and government policies it entails.Birth Control in China 1949-2000 documents an agonizing search for a way out of predicament and a protracted inner Party struggle, a massive effort for social engineering and grinding problems of implementation. It reveals how birth control in China is shaped by political, economic and social interests, bureaucratic structures and financial concerns. Based on own interviews and a wealth of new statistics, surveys and documents, Thomas Scharping also analyzes how the demographics of China have changed due to birth control policies, and what the future is likely to hold. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of modern China, Asian studies and the social sciences.
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By Allen, L.
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This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single... or mixed gender classes?
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Seventeen weeks pregnant and facing a miscarriage, Savita Halappanavar and her husband Praveen walked into an Irish maternity ward in October 2012. Unwittingly, the couple also walked into that deeply controversial arena in which Ireland's legislative position on abortion remaine...d unresolved. A week later, Savita was dead from septicaemia.
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