Adoption
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does adoption look like in the United States today?
In the middle of the twentieth century, adoption became a widespread practice in the United States when thousands of ...
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The Animals Themselves
Paul Waldau
in Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know®
A central issue in any discussion of protections for living beings outside our own species is the question of the animals’ actual biological realities. Intuitively, we know that other ...
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Birthing, Breast-Feeding, and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In what settings are babies born in the United States today?
In 1900 more than 95 percent of American women gave birth at home. Fourteen years later, anesthesia, or “twilight ...
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Contemporary Abortion III—Activism, Law, and Policy
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How are state legislatures responding to abortion and satellite issues?
In recent years many state legislatures have defined abortion and efforts to limit the procedure as their ...
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Contemporary Abortion Politics I—Opinions and Science
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the most common objections to abortion today, and how have objections changed over time?
Objections to abortion have changed over time. In the nineteenth century, before ...
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Contemporary Abortion Politics Ii—experience and Practice
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the abortion rate in the United States and how has it changed in recent years?
After 1990, the number and rate of abortions declined every year for about a decade and a ...
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Contemporary Sciences—Natural and Social
Paul Waldau
in Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Just as the major human endeavors of law, education, religion, and various fields like literature and the study of history reveal humans’ diverse engagement with other living beings, so too ...
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Contraception
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the most commonly used forms of contraception in the United States?
Almost all heterosexual, sexually active women have used at least one form of contraception; nearly 90 ...
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Disability and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What basic reproductive restrictions have been placed on women with disabilities in the past and today?
Historically, the medical community and general society considered disabled ...
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Education, the Professions, and the Arts
Paul Waldau
in Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Education, the professions, and the arts have all been a rich part of human ingenuity. Each has also played important roles in humans’ past interactions with other living beings, and each ...
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The Environment and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How are environmental contaminants affecting reproductive health in the United States?
No one knows for sure the relationship between contaminants and reproduction, but there are ...
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Family Building, Reproductive Technologies, and Stem Cell Research
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What qualifies as a family today?
Traditionally, state governments and religious institutions made laws and rules about marriage and family that were obeyed by almost all ...
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Feminism and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is feminism so important to reproductive politics, and vice versa, in the United States?
Over the course of American history, questions about female fertility have typically ...
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Fetuses
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Has the fetus always been the focus of anti-abortion concerns?
Anti-abortion campaigns in the illegal era focused on a number of issues, from protecting women against ...
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The Future of Animal Rights
Paul Waldau
in Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In the 1957 documentary The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, the Algerian strategist Larbi Ben M’Hidi says to one activist, “It’s hard enough to start a revolution, even ...
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General Information
Paul Waldau
in Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In the phrase “animal rights,” the word “animal” is rarely, if ever, understood to refer to humans. Instead, it is virtually always a reference to living beings outside our own species. ...
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Global Reproductive Health and us Programs and Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is USAID’s family-planning program?
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent federal agency that provides economic, developmental, and ...
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Health Care and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does the federal health care reform act of 2010 say about pregnancy, contraception, abortion, and reproductive health care generally?
The United States has the most expensive ...
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Historical Questions
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
When and why was abortion criminalized in the United States?
Since reproduction is a biological process, it is often perceived as timeless. But this process takes place within ...
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History and Culture
Paul Waldau
in Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The history of humans interacting with the living beings outside our own species is deep and broad. Any single attempt to tell the whole story of how humans have seen and reacted to, as ...
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