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Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care

Author : Alissa C. Perrucci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442214589
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care written by Alissa C. Perrucci and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s contentious political environment surrounding abortion, clinicians, counselors and social workers need a clear framework for providing skilled, compassionate decision counseling. They need help working with the hard stuff: “What do I do when my patient asks me if God will forgive her?” or “What do I say when a woman says that she feels like she’s killing her baby?” These are the questions asked by clinicians and mental health professionals everywhere; these are also the questions for which this book offers answers. The fields of healthcare and counseling psychology have long-awaited a manual for conducting pregnancy decision counseling across the spectrum of patient issues, employee skill levels, and clinic resources. Using case examples, individual and group exercises, guided self-reflection, and values clarification, the reader will develop the necessary skills to provide compassionate and informed pregnancy decision counseling. This book will define the gold standard for decision assessment and counseling for all pregnancy options and will be cited as the definitive guide for learning, teaching, and providing high-quality, compassionate counseling in abortion and family planning clinics nationwide.

The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309468213
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion is a legal medical procedure that has been provided to millions of American women. Since the Institute of Medicine first reviewed the health implications of national legalized abortion in 1975, there has been a plethora of related scientific research, including well-designed randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and epidemiological studies examining abortion care. This research has focused on examining the relative safety of abortion methods and the appropriateness of methods for different clinical circumstances. With this growing body of research, earlier abortion methods have been refined, discontinued, and new approaches have been developed. The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States offers a comprehensive review of the current state of the science related to the provision of safe, high-quality abortion services in the United States. This report considers 8 research questions and presents conclusions, including gaps in research.

Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789241548717
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clinical practice handbook for safe abortion care is intended to facilitate the practical application of the clinical recommendations from the second edition of Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems (World Health Organization [WHO] 2012). While legal, regulatory, policy and service-delivery contexts may vary from country to country, the recommendations and best practices described in both of these documents aim to enable evidence-based decision-making with respect to safe abortion care.

Counselling for Maternal and Newborn Health Care

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241547626
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Counselling for Maternal and Newborn Health Care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of this practical Handbookis to strengthen counselling and communication skills of skilled attendants (SAs) and other health providers, helping them to effectively discuss with women, families and communities the key issues surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, postnatal and post-abortion care. Counselling for Maternal and Newborn Health Careis divided into three main sections. Part 1 is an introduction which describes the aims and objectives and the general layout of the Handbook. Part 2 describes the counselling process and outlines the six key steps to effective counselling. It explores the counselling context and factors that influence this context including the socio-economic, gender, and cultural environment. A series of guiding principles is introduced and specific counselling skills are outlined. Part 3 focuses on different maternal and newborn health topics, including general care in the home during pregnancy; birth and emergency planning; danger signs in pregnancy; post-abortion care; support during labor; postnatal care of the mother and newborn; family planning counselling; breastfeeding; women with HIV/AIDS; death and bereavement; women and violence; linking with the community. Each Session contains specific aims and objectives, clearly outlining the skills that will be developed and corresponding learning outcomes. Practical activities have been designed to encourage reflection, provoke discussions, build skills and ensure the local relevance of information. There is a review at the end of each session to ensure the SAs have understood the key points before they progress to subsequent sessions.

Abortion Counseling

Author : Rachel Needle, PsyD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780826103376
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Abortion Counseling written by Rachel Needle, PsyD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of women who have had abortions report feeling happy, satisfied, and relieved following their abortion. Some few women who have had an abortion may experience some feelings of guilt and sadness; however, this rarely lasts longer than a few days. Those very few women who present with prolonged feelings of sadness and mental health problems are women who have either had these problems prior to their abortion, had other risk factors, or were influenced by frightening demonstrations and inaccurate biased information provided prior to the abortion. Through this book the authors hope to train general therapists and counselors in pre- and post-abortion counseling techniques--to avoid women experiencing unnecessary psychological problems created by those who insist that the non-existent "post-abortion syndrome" exists. "Abortion counseling has a critical role to play in ensuring women's mental health is the priority and not the goals of a political agenda. Thus, Needle and Walker have taken on a complex, profound and essential task -- equipping therapists and abortion counselors with the knowledge and skills needed to help their clients -- and they have done it wellÖ.Readers of this book should [gain] an increased understanding of how women's diverse life circumstances affect their ability to cope with the difficult decisions and circumstances surrounding abortion. They will also be better able to build women's resilience and coping skills by having considered them both in the context of women's lives (e.g., coping resources, social support, partner violence, incidence of depression), and in the context of socio-political agendas that seek to manipulate women's mental health in order to undermine women's reproductive rights....In the final analysis, it is important to remember that abortion counseling is not about abortion - it is about women confronting the decision to bear a child - with all of the profound and life changing commitments and responsibilities that entails." -- From the Foreword by Nancy Felipe Russo, PhD, Regents Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University

Safe Abortion

Author : Organisation mondiale de la santé
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241590343
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Safe Abortion written by Organisation mondiale de la santé and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a UN General Assembly Special Session in 1999, governments recognised unsafe abortion as a major public health concern, and pledged their commitment to reduce the need for abortion through expanded and improved family planning services, as well as ensure abortion services should be safe and accessible. This technical and policy guidance provides a comprehensive overview of the many actions that can be taken in health systems to ensure that women have access to good quality abortion services as allowed by law.

The Turnaway Study

Author : Diana Greene Foster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982141573
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Turnaway Study written by Diana Greene Foster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now with a new afterword by the author"--Back cover.

Contraceptive counselling in abortion care

Author : Helena Kilander
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
ISBN 13 : 9176852644
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Contraceptive counselling in abortion care written by Helena Kilander and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Improving women’s knowledge about contraception, and their access to contraceptive methods, is central in order to strengthen their sexual and reproductive rights at the time of an abortion. Contraceptive counselling aims to support women’s reproductive control and prevent unintended pregnancies (UPs). It is unclear, however, how to provide contraceptive counselling and how to organise services at the time of an abortion, in order to achieve this. Aim: The overall aim was to study women’s choices and use of contraceptive methods post-abortion. The research also aimed to describe contraceptive counselling in the context of an abortion from women’s and health professionals’ (HP’s) perspectives. Initial studies informed subsequent improvement efforts, also evaluated in the thesis, regarding contraceptive counselling and services at the time of an abortion. Design and Methods: The studies in this thesis involve both quantitative (studies I and IV) and qualitative (studies II–IV) methods, performed at six departments in southeast Sweden. Study I had a quantitative and longitudinal design. The medical records of women (n=987) were reviewed regarding women’s choice of contraceptive method at the index abortion and the odds of repeat abortion within three to four years. Studies II and III were qualitative interview studies, in which 13 women (study II) and 21 healthcare professionals (HPs) (study III) described their experiences of contraceptive counselling at the time of an abortion. The interviews were analysed using interpretive phenomenology (study II) and conventional content analysis (study III). Study IV was a case study regarding a qualitative improvement collaborative (QIC), designed to improve contraceptive counselling and services. Three multi-professional teams involved in abortion care participated in the QIC and two women provided user-experience input. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected and analysed. Results: The findings of the thesis are organised into three themes: I) Women and HPs described contraceptive counselling at the time of an abortion as an often - complex meeting. There was scepticism about contraceptive methods and limited receptivity to information among women. Respectful counselling facilitated women’s choice of contraceptive method even if they were sceptical and found the situation emotionally charged. II) Women’s choices, need for guidance and access to the contraceptive methods was described in the second theme. Choice of oral contraceptives (OC) dominated. Overall, 25% of the women experienced repeat abortion during followup. Women who chose long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) experienced fewer repeat abortions compared to women who chose OC. Both women and HPs reported barriers in access to LARC post-abortion. III) In a Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC), two volunteering women provided user-experience input. HPs participating in this QIC reported strengthened skills in counselling and enhanced ability to evaluate their performance. Despite the team’s prediction that they would reach the QIC goal that ≥50% of women would start LARC within 30 days post-abortion, and the fact that a majority of the women in QIC units chose LARC, none of the teams managed to reach the goal, primarily due to insufficient capacity for timely initiation of LARC. Conclusion: The findings suggest that women need respectful counselling and guidance at the time of an abortion. Access to a range of contraceptive methods, particularly LARC, is important to prevent repeat UPs. There is room for further improvement in offering coordinated and timely access for women who choose LARC, and to evaluate counselling, in the present settings.

Our Choices

Author : Sumi Hoshiko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317765087
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Our Choices written by Sumi Hoshiko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationships, sex, pregnancy, and abortion are among the topics discussed with engaging frankness by sixteen women in this collection of oral histories. Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions About Abortion presents readers with the opportunity to understand the abortion choice in a way that statistics and abstract debate cannot. The accounts show how pregnancy and abortion are inextricably tied together in the complicated social and psychological lives of men and women. By exploring the women’s feelings about becoming pregnant unintentionally and the circumstances surrounding that occurrence, the stories reveal much about how men and women communicate with each other about sex, the effect of pregnancy and abortion on relationships, and how a woman’s upbringing has shaped her knowledge and attitudes regarding sex and abortion. Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions About Abortion includes stories of both legal and illegal abortions from the 1950s through the 1980s. The women included represent a variety of socioeconomic, cultural, and religious backgrounds, reminding readers that any woman can potentially be faced with the decisions surrounding unintended pregnancy and abortion. The issues raised cover the trauma of an illegal abortion, abortion versus adoption, abortion following rape, abortion as a medical procedure, and the role of family and partner support. Women who are considering abortion or who have had an abortion in the past will gain a deeper understanding of this complex and private experience; their partners, families, and friends will be better equipped to provide help and support. Professionals, including counselors and health care providers, will want to read this engrossing book and refer their clients to it. Students in women’s studies and health care programs, policymakers, ethicists, and others with an interest in women’s issues will find the book enlightening. It should be read by anyone wishing a more complete knowledge of abortion and the vast array of issues it encompasses. Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions About Abortion can be sold in family planning clinics to clients, used in pregnancy counseling training, and retained for reference by both public libraries and family planning clinics, reproductive rights organizations, universities, and women’s centers.

Happy & Healthy

Author : Peter Richel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762775742
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Happy & Healthy written by Peter Richel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for parents to the first year of doctor’s visits, illnesses, and vaccinations

Your Birth Plan

Author : Megan Davidson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538121581
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Your Birth Plan written by Megan Davidson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no right way or best way to give birth, but if you’re pregnant, you’re likely already hearing advice and stories about what you should do, how you should feel, and what you should want from your birth experience. Your Birth Plan is an intervention: it’s a birth book that equally honors all paths and all pregnant people, guiding and empowering you to make informed decisions, without judgment or prescription, for your own positive birth experience. Long on information, short on opinions, Your Birth Plan is a how-to guide filled with practical descriptions, insights, stories and tips to make it easier for you to pick where, with whom, and in what way you would like to give birth. Your Birth Plan is comprehensive and free from judgment and prescriptions. It offers unbiased information about all birthing options, including birthing in a hospital, at home, or in a birthing center; having an epidural or an unmedicated birth; induction of labor; vaginal or Cesarean birth; and more. This is a new, inspiring, inclusive, and much-needed guide to help you plan for a birth where you are empowered to make your own choices and to have your needs met, whatever they are.

Her Choice to Heal

Author : Sydna Masse
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 9781434768728
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Her Choice to Heal written by Sydna Masse and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Choice to Heal guides women through post-abortion healing by sharing personal stories and offering practical tools, compassionate support, and hope in Christ.

Perinatal Palliative Care

Author : Erin M. Denney-Koelsch
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030347516
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Perinatal Palliative Care written by Erin M. Denney-Koelsch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is a first-of-its-kind resource that comprehensively covers each facet and challenge of providing optimal perinatal palliative care. Designed for a wide and multi-disciplinary audience, the subjects covered range from theoretical to the clinical and the practically relevant, and all chapters include case studies that provide real-world scenarios as additional teaching tools for the reader. Perinatal Palliative Care: A Clinical Guide is divided into four sections. Part One provides the foundation, covering an overview of the field, key theories that guide the practice of perinatal palliative care, and includes a discussion of perinatal ethics and parental experiences and needs upon receiving a life-limiting fetal diagnosis. Part Two delves further into practical clinical care, guiding readers through issues of obstetrical management, genetic counseling, neonatal pain management, non-pain symptom management, spiritual care, and perinatal bereavement care. Part Three discusses models of perinatal palliative care, closely examining evidence for different types of PPC programs: from hospital-based programs, to community-based care, and examines issues of interdisciplinary PPC care coordination, birth planning, and team support. Finally, Part Four concludes the book with a close look at special considerations in the field. In this section, racial, ethnic, and cultural perspectives and implications for PPC are discussed, along with lessons in how to provide PPC for a wide-range of clinical and other healthcare workers. The book closes with a look to the future of the field of perinatal palliative care. Thorough and practical, Perinatal Palliative Care: A Clinical Guide is an ideal resource for any healthcare practitioner working with these vulnerable patient populations, from palliative care specialists, to obstetricians, midwifes, neonatologists, hospice providers, nurses, doulas, social workers, chaplains, therapists, ethicists, and child life specialists.

Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy

Author : Maureen Paul
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444358472
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy written by Maureen Paul and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to high quality abortion care is essential to women’s health, as evidenced by the dramatic decrease in pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality since the legalization of abortion in the United States, and by high rates of maternal death and complications in those countries where abortion is still provided under unsafe conditions. The past two decades have brought important advances in abortion care as well as increasing cross-disciplinary use of abortion technologies in women’s health care. Abortion is an important option for pregnant women who have serious medical conditions or fetal abnormalities, and fetal reduction techniques are now well-integrated into infertility treatment to reduce the risks of multiple pregnancies resulting from assisted reproductive technologies. Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care is the textbook of the National Abortion Federation, and serves as the standard, evidence-based reference text in abortion care. This state-of-the-art textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the public health implications of unsafe abortion and reviews the best surgical and medical practices for pregnancy termination, as well as managing ectopic and other abnormal pregnancies. Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care is the leading source for a comprehensive understanding of issues related to unintended and abnormal pregnancy. This textbook: is authored by internationally-known leaders in women's health care; addresses unintended pregnancy and abortion from historical, legal, public health, clinical, and quality care perspectives; includes chapters on pregnancy loss, ectopic pregnancy, gestational trophoblastic disease, and multifetal pregnancy reduction; covers treatment of pregnancies in the first and second trimester by both medical and surgical techniques; and provides resources for clinical, scientific, and social support for the abortion provider and patient.

The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309468183
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion is a legal medical procedure that has been provided to millions of American women. Since the Institute of Medicine first reviewed the health implications of national legalized abortion in 1975, there has been a plethora of related scientific research, including well-designed randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and epidemiological studies examining abortion care. This research has focused on examining the relative safety of abortion methods and the appropriateness of methods for different clinical circumstances. With this growing body of research, earlier abortion methods have been refined, discontinued, and new approaches have been developed. The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States offers a comprehensive review of the current state of the science related to the provision of safe, high-quality abortion services in the United States. This report considers 8 research questions and presents conclusions, including gaps in research.

Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health

Author : Ellie Lee
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202364049
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health written by Ellie Lee and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever reproductive choices women make--whether they opt to end a pregnancy through abortion or continue to term and give birth--they are considered to be at risk of suffering serious mental health problems. According to opponents of abortion in the United States, potential injury to women is a major reason why people should consider abortion a problem. On the other hand, becoming a mother can also be considered a big risk. This fine, well-balanced book is about how people represent the results of reproductive choices. It examines how and why pregnancy and its various outcomes have come to be discussed this way. The author's interest in the medicalization of reproduction--its representation as a mental health problem--first arose in relation to abortion. There is a very clear contrast between the construction of women who have abortions, implied by moralized argument against abortion, and the construction that results when the case against abortion focuses on its effects on women's mental health. Lee argues that claims that connect abortion with mental illness have been limited in their influence, but this is not to suggest that they have not become a focus for discussion and have had no impact. The limits to such claims about abortion do not, by any means, suggest limits to the process of the medicalization of pregnancy more broadly, that is, a process of demedicalization. The final theme of Ellie Lee's book is the selective medicalization of reproduction. Centering on the claim that abortion can create a post abortion syndrome, the author examines the "medicalization" of the abortion problem on both sides of the Atlantic. Lee points to contrasts in legal and medical dimensions of the abortion issue that make for some important differences, but argues that in both the United States and Great Britain, the post-abortion-syndrome claim constitutes an example of the limits to medicalization and the return to the theme of motherhood as a psychological ordeal. Lee makes the case for looking to the social dimensions of mental health problems to account for and understand debates about what makes women ill. Ellie Lee is research fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton, Highfield, United Kingdom.

Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America

Author : Deana A. Rohlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107069238
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America written by Deana A. Rohlinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together analyses of archival material, news coverage, and interviews conducted with journalists from mainstream and partisan outlets as well as with activists across the political spectrum, Deana A. Rohlinger reimagines how activists use a variety of mediums, sometimes simultaneously, to agitate for - and against - legal abortion. Rohlinger's in-depth portraits of four groups - the National Right to Life Committee, Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, and Concerned Women for America - illuminates when groups use media and why they might choose to avoid media attention altogether. Rohlinger expertly reveals why some activist groups are more desperate than others to attract media attention and sheds light on what this means for policy making and legal abortion in the twenty-first century.