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• Why Pro-Life: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Sandy, OR: Eternal Perspective Ministries, c2004), by Randy C. Alcorn (PDF at epm.org)
• Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? (10th edition; Sandy, OR: Eternal Perspective Ministries, 2011), by Randy C. Alcorn (PDF with commentary at epm.org)
• The Illusion of Agony: A Comprehensive Critique of Dr. Robert Wennberg's Book, "Life in the Balance: Exploring the Abortion Controversy", by Douglas Gwinn (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Abortion and the Christian: What Every Believer Should Know (c1984), by John Jefferson Davis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Trespassing for Dear Life: What is Operation Rescue Up To? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, c1989), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Why Abortion? The Myth of Choice for Women Who are Poor, by Anne Nicol Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)
• L'avortement : quid leges sine moribus? ; thèse pour le doctorat (Marchal & Godde, 1912), by Stanislas Du Moriez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Serpents in the doves' nest. (Lee and Shepard, 1867), by John Todd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abortion Questions and Answers: Love Them Both (2003 edition), by J. C. Willke and Barbara Willke (PDF files at lifeissues.org)

• Respect Life Report (selected issues, 1980-1988), by National Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for Pro-Life Activities (partial serial archives)

• Respect Life Report (selected issues, 1980-1988), by National Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for Pro-Life Activities (partial serial archives)

• Life Issues Connector (some full issues, and some selected articles, 1996-) (partial serial archives)

• Constitutional amendments relating to abortion hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on S.J. Res. 17, S.J. Res. 18, S.J. Res. 19, and S.J. Res. 110 ... October 5, 14, 19, November 4, 5, 12, 16, December 7, and 16, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 hearings before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session on S. 1912, to protect the reproductive rights of women, and other purposes, March 27 and May 23, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights (second edition, 1991), by Evelyn Sell (HTML at marxists.org)
• Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (second edition; Franklin, TN: Adroit Press, c1992), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 hearings before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session on S. 1912, to protect the reproductive rights of women, and other purposes, March 27 and May 23, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clinic blockades : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, May 6, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights (second edition, 1991), by Evelyn Sell (HTML at marxists.org)
• Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (second edition; Franklin, TN: Adroit Press, c1992), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Opposition and intimidation (University of Michigan Press, 2007), by Alesha E. Doan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Clinic blockades : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, May 6, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abortion clinic violence : hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, April 1 and June 10, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clinic blockades : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, May 6, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clinic blockades : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, May 6, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Third Time Around: A History of the Pro-Life Movement From the First Century to the Present (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 1991), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

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• The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods (Creative Commons licensed edition, c2008), by Sage-Femme Collective (PDF at riseup.net)
• Confessions of an Abortionist, by Martin Avery (HTML at infidels.org)
• Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence, and Its Law (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1868), by Horatio Robinson Storer and Franklin Fiske Heard (page images at HathiTrust)
• La question de population et le problème sexuel : contenant une étude sur l'avortement, sa nécessité, ses procédés, ses dangers ... (Edition du Malthusien, 1920), by Gabriel Giroud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• I performed abortions. (Carlton Press, 1963), by Richard Dares (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the causes and treatment of abortion and sterility : being the result of an extended practical inquiry into the physiological and morbid conditions of the uterus, with reference especially to leucorrhoeal affections, and the diseases of menstrusation (Blanchard & Lea, 1854), by James Whitehead and M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago Stanton A. Friedberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unborn child ([Printed by J.J. Little & Ives], 1931), by Matthew A 1886- Liotta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anjea; infanticide, abortion and contraception in savage society (W. Godwin, inc., 1931), by Herbert H. Aptekar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spontaneous and habitual abortion. (Blakiston Division, 1957), by Carl T. Javert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abortion: murder or mercy? (Fawcett Publications, 1962), by Margaret Witte Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'avortement. (J.-B. Baillière, 1901), by P. Brouardel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Retentio placentae post abortum ... (E. Ijdo, 1894), by Iman Gualtherus Jacob Evers (page images at HathiTrust)
• An open letter to the medical profession : being a history and defense of Dr. Hale's pamphlet, entitled, On the homeopathic treatment of abortion ... to which is added ... a facsimile of the original pamphlet (John Millikan, 1877), by Edwin M. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The married woman's private medical companion : embracing the treatment of menstruation ... pregnancy ... discovery to prevent pregnancy ... to prevent miscarriage or abortion ... ([s.n.] ;, 1849), by A. M. Mauriceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Right to privacy and reproductive freedom : hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first and second sessions, May 10, 1989 and March 15, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Implementation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, September 22, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of anesthesia during a partial-birth abortion : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, March 21, 1996. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Fruchtabtreibung durch Gifte und andere Mittel ; ein Handbuch für Aerzte und Juristen (Hirschwald, 1899), by Louis Lewin and M. Brenning (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La mort subite au cours des manoeuvres abortives : étude médico-légale. (Imprimerie L. Delbrel & Cie, 1913), by Pierre Jouvelet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Parallèle entre la céphalotripsie et l'opération césarienne : thèse présentée au concours pour l'agrégation (section de chirurgie et d'accouchements) et soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Paris, le 6 juin 1866 (Adrien Delahaye, 1866), by A. Guéniot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die sexuelle Not (C.W. Stern, 1909), by Fritz Wittels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die häufigkeit des abortes. Ein statistischer beitrag aus der Universitätsfrauenklinik in Marburg ... (J. Hamel, 1919), by Karl Julius Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber die zunahme der fruchtabtreibungen vom standpunkt der volksgesundheit und rassenhygiene. Bericht über die sitzung des ausschusses des Landesgesundheitsrats für bevölkerungswesen und rassenhygiene, am freitag, den 13. november 1925, in Ministerium für volkswohlfahrt. (R. Schoetz, 1926), by Prussia. Landesgesundheitsrat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Algunas consideraciones sobre la embriotomia. (Oficina tip. de la Secretaría de Fomento, 1899), by Luis L. Bejarano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A systematic treatise on abortion ... (C.S. Halsey, 1866), by Edwin M. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abortion and its treatment, from the stand-point of practical experience; a special course of lectures delivered at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York, session of 1889-'90 (D. Appleton, 1893), by T. Gaillard Thomas and P. Brynberg Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Motive der Bestrafung der Fruchtabtreibung (II. Teil) (Reinhardt, 1909), by Wolfram Kimmig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abortus bei Stuten durch einen Paratyphus-b-bacillus. (A. Oosthoek, 1913), by Teunis van Heelsbergen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beiträge zur Sterilitätsbehandlung in Abortusbeständen : Abortinimpfung-eierstocksuntersuchungen. (J. Springer, 1922), by Hermann Strodthoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The unwelcome child; or, The crime of an undesigned and undesired maternity. (Colby & Rich, 1876), by Henry Clarke Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude médico-légale sur l'avortement : suivie d'une note sur l'obligation de déclarer à l'état civil les foetus mortnés et d'observations et recherches pour servir à l'histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées (J.-B. Baillière, 1898), by Ambroise Tardieu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'avortement : quid leges sine moribus? ; thèse pour le doctorat (Marchal & Godde, 1912), by Stanislas Du Moriez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to inquire into epizootic abortion ... [with Minutes of evidence and appendices] (Printed for H. M. Stationery Off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., Printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1909), by Great Britain. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Committee to Inquire into Epizootic Abortion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über Embryotomie in specie über decapitation nach der methoden : Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde ... (E.A. Huth, 1869), by Theodor Wessels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den diagnostischen Wert der Komplementbindung und der Ophthalmoreaktion beim infektiösen Abortus der Kühe ... (Buchdr. von A. Schönfeld, 1912), by Paul Hantsche (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The causes and treatment of abortion. (Pentland, 1889), by Robert Rentoul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burns's obstetrical works (Collins and Perkins, 1809), by John Burns, Francis Kearny, and Collins & Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gates of hell ajar (New London, Conn., 1894), by John R. Bolles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité pratique de l'accouchement prématuré artificiel; comprenant son histoire, ses indications, l'époque à laquelle on doit le pratiquer, et le meilleur moyen de le déterminer. (Masson, 1855), by Paulin Silbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human fetal tissue transplantation research : report of the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health. (The Institutes, 1988), by National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee to the Director (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La répression de la propagande contre la natalité : la loi du 31 juillet 1920 réprimant la provocation à l'avortement & la propagande anticonceptionnelle (Impr. Niel, F.-N. Nicollet, successeur, 1921), by Pierre Garraud and Marcel Laborde-Lacoste (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dissertatio juridica inauguralis De conatu partus abacti, quam ... ex auctoritate rectoris magnifici Simonis Karsten ... eruditorum examini submittit Ludovicus Gerardus Greeve (Apud Kemink et filium, typogr., 1846), by L. G. Greeve and Simon Karsten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on abortion : containing an account of the manner in which it is accomplished, the causes which produce it, and the method of preventing or treating it. (Longman, 1806), by John Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voluntary abortion, or fashionable prostitution, with some remarks upon the operation of craniotomy. (Thurston, 1867), by Ed. Ph Le Prohon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abortion hearing, AB 2614. San Diego, California, December 17-18, 1962. (The Committee, 1962), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Criminal Procedure (page images at HathiTrust)
• A systematic treatise on abortion and sterility (C.S. Halsey, 1868), by Edwin M. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introductory lecture to the fourth session of Toland Medical College : delivered June 4, 1867 (T.G. Spear & Co., 1867), by Henry Gibbons and Toland Medical College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avortement. (J. B. Baillière, 1868), by Ambroise Tardieu and J.-B. Baillière et fils (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unwelcome child; or, The crime of an undesigned and undesired maternity. (B. Marsh, 1860), by Henry Clarke Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why not? a book for every woman (Lee and Shepard, 1867), by Horatio Robinson Storer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Fruchtabtreibung durch Gifte und andere Mittel. Ein Handbuch für Ärzte und Juristen. (J. Springer, 1922), by Louis Lewin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A manual of obstetrical technique : as applied to private practice, with a chapter on abortion, premature labor, and curettage (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by Joseph Brown Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Künstliche Fehlgeburt und künstliche Unfruchtbarkeit; ihre Indikationen, Technik und Rechtslage Ein Handbuch für Ärzte und Bevölkerungspolitiker unter Mitwirkung von Curt Adam [et al.] (Thieme, 1918), by Siegfried Placzek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte des Motive der Abtreibungsbestrafung. I. Teil. (Druck M. Ernst, 1908), by Otta Ehinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur Lehre von der künstlichen Unterbrechung der Schwangerschaft (künstliche Frühgeburt und künstlicher Abortus) (J. Ricker'sche Buchhandlung ;, 1881), by Martin Isavevich Horwitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why not? : a book for every woman (Lee and Shepard, 1868), by Horatio Robinson Storer (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'accouchement prématuré artificiel (A. Delahaye, 1859), by Charles Louis Aubé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why not? : A book for every woman (Lee and Shepard, 1900), by Horatio Robinson Storer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inwiefern ist beim vorliegen einer neurose oder psychose künstliche unterbrechung der schwangerschaft medizinisch indiziert und juristisch gestattet? (Wilhelm Braumüller, 1905), by Hans Gross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Avortement et dépopulation (affaire Constance Thomas-Floury) (Policlinique de Paris, 1892), by Charles Floquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del procurato aborto. (Milano, 1894), by Costanzo Calogero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensieri sul procurato aborto. (B. Canovetti, 1882), by Gio. Batt Carrara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del reato di procurato aborto ove lo stato di gravidanza non esista (Unione tipografico-editrice, 1899), by Giuseppe Gregoraci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Perizia medico-legale ... (Tip. del commercio, 1902), by Giuseppe Licata (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studio medico-legale sulle lesioni di continuità dell'utero ... (L. Vallardi, 1891), by Giuseppe Ziino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breve estudio acerca del aborto ... (Imprenta "Gamboa Guzmán", 1895), by Pedro Palma Espinosa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unico principio ed unico fine del delitto d'aborto desunti dalla civiltà antica. (F. Barravecchia, 1900), by Salvatore Scherma (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das verbrechen der abtreibung. (Mainz, 1878), by Hermann Horch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des crimes contre les enfants nouveau-nés; des moyens de les prévenir & de les réprimer. (L. Caillot, 1888), by Gabriel Pringué (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prevention and treatment of abortion (C. V. Mosby company, 1910), by Frederick J. Taussig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crux of pastoral medicine : the perils of embryonic man: abortion, craniotomy and the cesarean section; myoma and the porro section (Fr. Pustet & Co., 1905), by Andrew Klarmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lawson Tait's perineal operations, and an essay on curettage of the uterus. (Wood., 1897), by W. J. Stewart McKay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iconographie pathologique de l'oeuf humain fécondé en rapport avec l'étiologie de l'avortement. (Baillière, 1884), by G. J. Martin Saint-Ange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abortion and its treatment : from the stand-point of practical experience : a special course of lectures delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, session of 1889-'90 (D. Appleton and Co., 1898), by T. Gaillard Thomas and P. Brynberg Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ethics of marriage. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1888), by H. S. Pomeroy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burns's obstetrical works (Published and sold by Collins and Perkins, printers and importers of medical books to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New-York, and to the New-York Hospital, 1809), by John Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'avortement, sa nécessité, ses procédés, ses dangers : étude sur la question de population et le probl'eme sexuel (L'Auteur, 1914), by G. Hardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über die bildung von antikörpern bei den gegen infektiösen abortus mit antektrol, abortin usw. geimpften rindern. ([Oscar Heinzes Buchdruckerei], 1921), by Friedrich Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on criminal abortion (W.S. George & Co., state printers and binders, 1876), by Homer O. Hitchcock and Michigan. State Board of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Induced abortions in Illinois, 1973 to 1975. (State Center for Health Statistics, Office of Planning, Illinois Dept. of Public Health, 1976), by Illinois. State Center for Health Statistics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Why not? : a book for every woman (Lee and Shepard, 1871), by Horatio Robinson Storer and American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abortion : judicial and legislative control ([Washington, D.C.] : The Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Major Issues System, [1980], 1980), by Karen J. Lewis, James Hall, Allison I. Porter, Morton Rosenberg, and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abortion - Part I: hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, 2d session on S.J. Res. 119, proposing an amendment to the protection of unborn children and other persons, and S.J. Res. 130, proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of life to the unborn, the ill, the aged, or the incapacitated. (U.S. Government Print. Off., 1974), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law against abortion; its perniciousness demonstrated and its repeal demanded (Eugenics Pub. Co., 1933), by William J. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pocket diary of Mrs. Roy B. Parnell, 1908-1913. (1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Why not? A book for every woman, by Horatio Robinson Storer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation: Consisting of Twelve Plates from Drawings Engraved on Stone, and Coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and Two Copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, Coloured by the Same Artist. the Whole Representing Forty-five Specimens of Aborted Ova and Adventitious Productions of the Uterus, With Preliminary Observations, Explanations of the Figures and Remarks, Anatomical and Physiological., by A. B. Granville (Gutenberg ebook)

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