Recommended Readings

Most, if not all, of these books can be found for under $6 on eBay!

General Abortion

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
by Diana Greene Foster Ph.D (2021)

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
by Laura Kaplan (2022)

Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care
by Shelley Sella MD (2025)

Bodies on the Line
by Lauren Rankin (2022)

Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America
by Carole E. Joffe and David S. Cohen (2020)

Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present
by Mary Ziegler (2020)

Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990s
by Ninia Baehr (1999)

Abortion Pills / Self-Managed Abortion

Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion
by Naomi Braine (2023)

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open
by Angela Hume (2023)

Reproductive Justice, medical racism & pregnancy criminalization

Reproductive Justice: An Introduction
by Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger (2017)

Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
by Barbara Gurr (2015)

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington (2008)

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by Dorothy Roberts (1998)

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
by Michele B Goodwin (2020)

The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood
by Grace E. Howard (2024)

Anti-Abortion Movement

Bodies Under Siege: How the Far–Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global
by Sian Norris (2023)

Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment
by Mary Ziegler (2022)

Women Against Abortion
by Karissa Haugeberg (2017)

Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
by Jennifer Holland (2020)

Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics
by Carol Mason (2002)

Wrath of Angels
by James Risen and Judy Thomas (1998)

The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, and America’s Culture Wars
by Joshua Wilson (2013)

Misc

Enemy Feminisms
by Sophie Lewis (2025)