Pro-life reading and purchasing suggestions :

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Issues overview
Books
Brian Clowes "The Facts of Life" Human Life International, 1997 ISBN 1559220430
Koop, C Everett     “Right to live, the right to die”  Living Books Tyndale 1980 Famous paediatric surgeon speaks out on abortion and mercy killing
Smith, Wesley  "The culture of death: the assault on medical ethics in America"
Pope John Paul II "Evangelium Vitae" (The Gospel of Life) St Pauls' Publications, Homebush 1995
Luke Gormally (ed.) "Culture of Life - Culture of Death" Linacre Press, London
Fitzpatrick, F J "Ethics in Nursing practice: basic principles and their application" Linacre Press, London
Luke Gormally (ed.) "Issues for a Catholic bioethic" Linacre Press, London
David Albert Jones OP "Organ transplants" Linacre Press, London
Online Books  
RoevWade.Org's Featured Pro-Life Book Selection

Prolife Periodicals Online  
 Southern Cross Bioethics institute has a database of journals indexed by topic, searchable for a fee ($4+postage) Resulting list can be emailed or faxed.

Journal article:
Rice, Professor Charles E  "Abortion, euthanasia, and the need to build a new culture of life" Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, vol. 12, issue no 2., 1998.

Contraception/ Natural Family Planning
Books
John Wilks "Consumers guide to the Pill and other drugs"  TGB Books Melbourne 1997, 2nd edition  ISBN 1890712256
Janet E Smith "Why Humanae Vitae was right: a reader"     Ignatius Press
John F Kippley's booklet "Birth Control and Christian Discipleship"
Billings, Dr. Evelyn       Billings method: controlling fertility without drugs or devices
                                                            AnneO’Donovan Richmond,Vic 1981 252p.
Kippley, John and Sheila “The Art of Natural Family Planning”, 4th Edition    Human Life International
Sutton, Agneta "Infertility and assisted conception" Linacre Press, London 
Hatcher, Robert A et al  "Contraceptive Technology" NewYork, Irvington Publishers, 1994

Journal articles:

1.Carey, Ronald F et al  "Effectiveness of latex condoms as a barrier to HIV-sized particles under conditions of         simulated use" Sexually Transmitted Diseases Jul-Aug  1992 p. 230
2. Kelly, Jeffrey A, and St Lawrence, Janet "Cautions about condoms in prevention of AIDS" The Lancet 7 Feb 1987 p. 323 3.   Tonti-Filippini N.  The pill: abortifacient or contraceptive? a literature review.  Linacre Q.  February 1995:5-28.
4.  Rudd,Gene  "Condoms and Sexually transmitted diseases"  The Annals of Pharmacology vol35 no 9 , 2001, p 1135.
5. "Postfertilization Effect of Hormonal Emergency Contraception," by Chris Kahlenborn, MD, Joseph B. Stanford, MD, MSPH, and Walter L. Larimore, MD, March 2002 issue of The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, now available online at http://www.theannals.com. (Evidence that morning-after pill drug regimens may cause the death of a living embryo by blocking its attempts to attach inside the uterus. )
6. "Oral contraceptive use and bone mineral density in premenopausal women..."      Canadian Medical Association Journal, 10/16/01, pp. 1023-1029   http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-165/issue-8/1023.asp
7. "Birth control shot may weaken bones," Health Scout News, 10/5/01
8. Grimes DA, Cook RJ.  Mifepristone (RU 486): an abortifacient to prevent abortion? N Engl J Med. 992;327:1088-1089.

Fetal development books:

Alexander Tsiaras and Barry Werth  "From Conception to Birth"

Abortion
Videos
“The Baby Terminators” Creation Research Australia    PO Box 260 Capalaba
$35 video     www.vocmar.com.au/creation
“What Now?”  Pregnancy Problem Centre Brisbane, available from Qld Right to Life  GPO Box 1507 Brisbane
  Options of Pregnancy, adoption and abortion reviewed through three women’s experiences plus medical viewpoint
  15 min $20 plus postage  www.qrtl.org.au
"Critical Choices" QRTL video     A 50 minute documentary covering Abortion and Euthanasia. This is the only Australian production to date. It is very professional and  excellent viewing for any age. Purchase: $40.00 QRTL
"Everyday Miracle - Birth"  QRTL  This is a short film capturing the development of the baby in the womb on camera.
It follows a young married couple through the mothers pregnancy, and delivery of the baby. Very tastefully done,  and suitable for any age group.    Purchase: $40.00 QRTL
“Ultrasound: Eyewitness to the Earliest Days of Life”  Heritage House ‘76 video   "With the application of High Resolution Ultrasound, we can now see in detail what we were like when we were formed in the womb. Suitable for all age levels and backgrounds. An excellent educational source for schools, hospitals, libraries, and wherever instruction on prenatal development is desired. 25 minutes. Heritage House 76 http://www.heritagehouse76.com

Books
 Stasse, Rev John   "A life worth keeping: the abortion debate" Presbyterian Church of Victoria Melbourne 2000
  ISBN 0949197955 80p. Bible on  abortion , Abortion, stories, Post-abortion Trauma, complications, and counselling
 Tankard-Reist, Melinda  "Giving sorrow words" Duffy&Snellgrove 2000
Burke, Theresa and Reardon, David "Forbidden grief: the unspoken pain of abortion" Acorn Books; ISBN: 0964895781; (June 2002)
Brind, Prof. Joel/ Burton, Prof Robert   “ Abortion and Breast Cancer”  Endeavor Forum 12
Denham Place, Toorak  Vic Aug 1999
Shaver, Jessica     “Gianna: aborted and lived to tell about it”  Focus on the Family 1995 23p.
Fisher, Anthony & Buckingham, Jane "Abortion in Australia - Answers and alternatives", Dove Communications, Blackburn 1985   Purchase: $15.00 QRTL
Nathanson, Bernard  "The Abortion Papers: Inside The Abortion Mentality"
                                         1983   Purchase: $10.00 QRTL
Edited by O'Donovan, Margaret & Stuparich, Jeremy  "The Abortion Debate- Pro-Life Essays"
 ACT Right to Life Association, Canberra   Purchase: $15.00 QRTL
Nathanson, Bernard   “The Hand of God : A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind”  Amazon  Price: $17.46 Hardcover (1996)  Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 0895264633
McCorvey, Norma   "Won by Love" Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe V. Wade, speaks out for the unborn as she shares her new conviction for life. In this autobiography by Norma McCorvey, you have the opportunity to read the behind-the-scenes report of one of this century's most surprising and public confessions of faith.
Kahlenborn, Dr. Chris "Breast cancer: its link to abortion and the birth control pill" 2000 Available from Amazon or HLI
Philip G. Ney, Marie A. Peeters-Ney (of the International Institute for Pregnancy Loss and Child Abuse Research & Recovery)  "Abortion Survivors" 1998, Pioneer Publishing Ltd., Victoria, B.C. Canada
DeMarco, D. "In my mothers womb: the Catholic Church's defense of natural life" (Manassas, Trinity) 1987
Grenier Sweet, G (ed.) "Pro-life Feminism: different voices" Life Cycle Books, Toronto, 1985.
Mosher, Steve "A mother's ordeal: one woman's fight against China's One-child policy" Little,Brown, Harcourt and Grace
Reardon, D C (ed.) "Victims and victors: speaking out about their pregnancies, abortions and children resulting from sexual assault" Acorn books, Springfield IL, 2000
Rivers, F "The atonement child" Tyndale House, Wheaton IL, 1997
Winkler, K "When the crying stops: abortion the pain and the healing" Northwestern, Milwaukee, 1992
Watt, Helen "Abortion" Linacre Press 48p. , London
Sutton, Agneta "Prenatal diagnosis: confronting the ethical issues" Linacre Press, London

Abortion issue in Fiction:
Dick, Philip K  "The Pre-persons" (short story which posits if the unborn are not "persons" perhaps in the future infanticide will also be allowed, in this case until the state-determined cut-off age of 12 when a child can understand algebra and has a soul.)
Swift, Jonathan "A modest proposal" (satire suggesting infanticide/babies as food- as a means of de-populating/poverty relief in Ireland (using unwanted humans as an economic commodity, as with embryos for stem cell research) )
Lucas, J R "Weeping in Ramah"

Journal articles:
1.Reardon DC, Cougle JR. Depression and unintended pregnancy in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: a cohort study British Medical Journal, 324:151-152. Full text available at http://www.bmj.com.
2.Philip Ney, M.D., "Relationship between abortion and child abuse," Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 24:610, 1979
 3.Dr. David Reardon and Dr. Philip Ney "Abortion and Subsequent Substance Abuse" published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Volume 26, Issue 1, 2000 pp. 61 - 75**
4.E. J. Furton,“Vaccines Originating in Abortion” in Ethics & Medics , published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center (Boston) 24:3 (March 1999) pp. 3-4.
5.Gregory K Pike, PhD British Medical Journal, 8 May 1999, 318:1230 **
Women need more mental health treatment after abortion - study in July 2002 issue of American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,
by Dr Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State Uni, Ohio and Dr David Reardon.
6.Reardon  DC, Ney PG, Scheuren FJ, Cougle JR, Coleman PK, Strahan T "Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: a record linkage study of low income women." Southern Medical Journal August 2002.**

Stem Cell research and cloning:
Books
Kass, Leon R, and Wilson, James Q “Ethics of Cloning”   ISBN 0844740500
Andrew Kimbrell, Bernard Nathanson  “The Human Body Shop : The Cloning, Engineering, and Marketing of Life” Amazon Price: $11.96 Paperback - 349 pages 2nd edition (1998) Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 0895264188

“The Human Cloning Debate” edited by MSNBC.com Breaking Bioethics columnist Glenn McGee, Ph.D.,
the first book to present Ian Wilmut's(the scientist who produced "Dolly" the sheep) thoughts on the troubling ramifications of this technology, along with essays by experts who explore the history of cloning, ethical issues and future possibilities
Keane, Eamonn  "The Brave New World of Therapeutic Cloning" order from PERI PO Box 907 Broadway NSW 2007 $6
Watt, Helen  "Gene Therapy" Linacre Press, London
                       "Genetic intervention on human subjects" Linacre Press, London
Journal Articles:
1. Gregory K Pike, PhD British Medical Journal, 8 May 1999, 318:1230
2. Clarke, D L  Johansson, C B Frisen J et al. "Generalised potential of adult neural stem cells" Science 2000, 288,  
    pp1600-1663. **
3. Vogel, G. "Can old cells learn new tricks?" Science 25 Feb 2000 p. 1418-1419**
4. Hines, P  Purnell, B Marx, J  "Stem cells branch out" Science 25 Feb 2000  p. 1417**
5 .Hall, Stephen S. "Adult Stem Cells" Technology Review magazine     November 2001**
6. Science and Society: Human embryonic stem cell research: ethical and legal issues John A. Robertson in 
    Nature Reviews Genetics Volume 2 Number 1 Page 74 - 78 (2001)
7. " Biotechnology and the European public"   George Gaskell, Nick Allum, Martin Bauer, John Durant,
     Agnes Allansdottir,  Heinz Bonfadelli, Daniel  ...    Nature Biotechnology Volume 18 Number 9 Page 935 - 938  
    (2000)                         
8. Tony Sheldon  Nature Medicine Volume 6 Number 8 Page 845 (2000) "European panel rejects creation of human embryos       for research"
9.  David Dickson   Nature Volume 408 Number 6810 Page 277 (2000)** " Stem cell politics, ethics and medical progress "
10. George J. Annas, Arthur Caplan, Sherman Elias   Nature Medicine Volume 5 Number 12 Page 1339 - 1341 (1999)                  "Stem cells: Panacea, or Pandora's box?"

Genetic modification in Fiction/Movies:
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
"The Genesis Code" by John Case
"The Boys From Brazil" by Ira Levin
"The Multiple Man" by Ben Bova
The Giver by Lois Lowry
"Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang"by Kate Wilhelm
Movies
"The Boys from Brazil"
"Gattica"
"Blade Runner" -  from the novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep" by Philip K Dick

Population control
Books
Keane, Eamonn  "Population and Development"  Human Life International  or News Weekly Books
 Sassone, Robert L "Handbook on population" 6th edition, American Life League ISBN 1890712086
 Kasun, Jacqueline “The War against Population” HLI
 Mosher, Steven W.  "A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy"
 published by Harcourt Brace in 1993 also "China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality" (Harper Collins, 1990)

Euthanasia
Books
Pollard, Brian MB  "Euthanasia; should we kill the dying?" Regent House, 1989 or Little Hills Press, Sydney      ISBN 0949773921            Purchase: $15.00 from QRTL
Perry, Selwyn 
    “The Way we let them die” 92 p. How dying can be a peaceful experience for the patient and the grieving family aided . Written by a nurse
Stuparich, Jeremy
.  "Euthanasia, palliative and hospice care and the terminally ill - Pro-Life Issues Seminar"1992 Purchase: $5.00 QRTL
Pollard, Brian
"The Challenge of Euthanasia" Little Hills Press, Sydney,1994 Purchase: $15.00 QRTL
Cundiff, David 
“Euthanasia Is Not the Answer : A Hospice Physician's View”Amazon $22.95  Hardcover - 190 pages (1992) Humana Pr   ISBN 089603237X
Marker, R
"Deadly compassion: the death of Anne Humphrey and the case against euthanasia" Harper Collins, London, 1994. Eric M. Chevlen, M.D., and Wesley J. Smith "Power over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You Need" -An outstanding new book on pain and its treatment.(2002, 236 pages) An understandable, down-to-earth book on a very complex and important subject.
Wesley J. Smith
"Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder" (1997)
Gormally, Luke (ed.)
"Euthanasia, clinical practice and the law" Linacre Press, London

Video
Buckley, William F. Jr.  “The right to kill” 58 mins Heritage House’76  $19.95 US http://www.heritagehouse76.com

Euthanasia issue in Fiction/Movies:
White, James."The Genocidal Healer" (Ballantine, 1992).
 Zelazny, Roger "The Engine At Heartspring's Center"
Bayly, Joseph.   "Winterflight" Word Books, Waco, Texas, 1981, 174 pp.
    Dystopian novel of the near future when euthanasia is imposed by the government.

"Logans' Run" - Escape from a society in which people are not allowed live past 30.
"Extreme measures"-  "Unwanted" homeless people killed during science experiments 

Progress in Palliative Care online journal
Innovations in end-of -life care

Genome Mapping:

Magazine article:
Source: The American Spectator              Published: April 2001 Author: Tom Bethell
"A Map to Nowhere The genome isn't a code and we can't read it" online archive at http://www.spectator.org/
      

Pro-life clipart and miniposters  for assignments and websites etc.

Pro-life bumper stickers, bookmarks, brooches, leaflets etc. from www.lifecyclebooks.com (USA&Canada)
and from www.qrtl.org.au (Brisbane, QLD)

Prolife online game  
(try it!)

Pro-life songs and MP3s

"Isaiah 49" by Carey Landry
"See No Evil" by Holy Soldier (Heavy metal band)listen at http://www.interstat.net/gargaro/music.html

Pat Boone songs "Let me live" Internationally famous prolife song
             "There is a better way"

Shirley Mundaloh   "Don't stop a beating heart", "Pro-life march" and "A letter from baby"
PROject LIFE cd     http://www.goldendomerecords.com
Project Grace cd about after abortion The Choice by Christine Jackman 10 song cd and interactive cd rom
  A musical journey through abortion,  mourning and spiritual healing. Clips and lyrics at http://www.gospelcom.net/projectgrace/main_index.php Released by: Project Grace, PO Box 112, Zeeland MI 49464.
                                       www.projectgrace.com

More songs about abortion: lyrics for some at http://www.afterabortion.com/songs_page2.html
 Carry the Blame     Artist: River City People                 A Baby's Prayer      Artist: Kathy Troccoli
Lost Woman Song  Artist: Ani DiFranco                       Miracle                   Artist: Whitney Houston
To Zion                  by Lauren Hill                                The Gift of Life       Artist: Desmond Child
Baby mine              Artist: Allison Kraus.                      Children Can Live - DC Talk - Nu Thang
A Baby's prayer - Kathy Troccoli - Love and Mercy    Lullabye for the Unborn - Michael Card - Sleep Sound in Jesus
Execution - Grammatrain - Lonely House                     Psalm of an Unborn - Sacrificium - Sacrificium
Hey World - Petra - Unseen Power                             Operation Rescue - Lust Control - We Are Not Ashamed
Rise Up - Seraiah - Carnival World                              Little Ones - Phil Keaggy - Ph'lip Side
The Choice - Al Denson - Take Me to the Cross          Hey World - Petra - Unseen Power
 Rise Up - Seraiah - Carnival World                             Baby Doe - Steve Taylor, Meltdown    ( an 'abnormal' baby is starved)
Baby Killers - Red Ink, Raw Meat demo                     A Billion Starving People - Keith Green (esp. 2nd verse)
Blue Eyes Like Janie - Second Sight                            Breaking Down - Code of Ethics, Visual Paradox

Danny's Downs - Michael Kelly Blanchard, A Common Thread & Be Ye Glad
     ( a couple's difficult decision to raise a downs syndrome child)
I Love You, I Do, You Bet - Michael Kelly Blanchard, Mercy in the Maze
     (healing after abortion)
I was Alive - Randy Rose (solo album)                             Make Believe - Randy Matthews, _The Edge Of Flight_
Unborn Child - Function,Play It Maestro (Lamb & Lion Records, 1982)     Unborn Child - Seals & Croft
 "Slaughter of the Innocents"   Undercover                    War Paint - Michael Kelly Blanchard, In Concert

FAMILY/PARENTING
Butterfly Kisses - Bob Carlisle - Shades of Grace                My Promise - Tourniquet - Vanishing Lessons
                           Two Sets of Joneses - Big Tent Revival - Big Tent Revival


Books at local libraries: 

Books in CQU library :
Nathanson, Bernard  "Aborting America"
Fisher, Anthony "Abortion in Australia" and "IVF: the critical issues''
Koop,  Dr. Everitt "Let's talk; an honest conversation on critical issues"
QRTL "Euthanasia: what does it really mean?"

Books in Rockhampton City Council library :
Clowes, Brian    "Facts of Life"
Harrison, Brian  "Religious liberty and contraception"
Fisher, Anthony  "IVF: the critical issues" and "Abortion in Australia: answers and alternatives"
Pollard, Brian     "Euthanasia; should we kill the dying?"
Cundiff, David    "Euthanasia is not the answer: a hospital physician's view"
Powell, John       "Abortion: the silent holocaust"
Klein, Renate     "RU486: misconceptions, myths and morals" (pro-abortion feminists opposed to RU486!)
Tankard-Reist, Melinda  "Giving sorrow words" (post-abortion grief)

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