Yusdi Arambula

October 25, 2016

RWS 1301
Annotated Bibliography

Bassett, L. (2014, May 15). The return of the back-alley abortion. The Huffington Post.
Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/back-alleyabortions_n_5065301.html
This article is very interesting because I can connect it with my personal experience as to
when I found out I was pregnant. The article talks about how with the strict regulations of
anti-abortion laws being passed in the state of Texas many abortion clinics have been
closed down limiting the resources for women who seek legal abortions. The article talks
about how these laws affect the border communities more since it is a place where we
hold no clinics for women to be attended, which causes women to cross the border and
seek illegal alterative mediations to complete self-induced, life risking abortions with
over the counter drugs. With my personal experience I went through the same process
due to the lack of resources by getting these medications although I did not take these
medications due to the risk of dying I strongly believe women should have the right to
have the correct health care for when seeking these abortions.
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. (2012). Abortion [Data File]. Retrieved from
http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/
This was data collected in the year 2012 by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention
of the United States government. It contains the number of legal abortions recorded in the

year and the ages of these women. The data also provides with the abortion reports from
1979 up to 2012 and how the abortions are formatted. This information can help by
reporting the rate of legal abortions and comparting them to the number of illegal
abortions that happen each year due to the lack of medical help and education on the
abortion subject, and it also helps see how abortion related deaths decrease with the help
of these laws being passed allowing women to terminate pregnancies.
Frantz, K. (2010). A questionable pro-choice strategy (in 140 characters or less) [Abstract]. The
Humanist. Volume: 70. Issue: 3. Retrieved from https://www.questia.com/read/1G1226046123/a-questionable-pro-choice-strategy-in-140-characters
This article is about a former Florida mother of a one-year-old films herself while she
goes through a self-induced abortion using drug RU-486. Her point to get across by
filming her abortion is to show women to not be scared of going through these type of
abortions. This article can be used as a double edge sword since in promotes the use of
these life threating drugs but also proves the point of women have a choice and say in
their sexual and reproductive life.
Jodi, E. (2005). The women's view: the pro-choice movement has seen moral complexity as its
enemy. but moral complexity is exactly why choice must be saved [Abstract]. The
American Prospect. Volume: 16. Issue: 4. Retrieved from
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-131130585/the-women-s-view-the-pro-choicemovement-has-seen
This article concludes of various stories and scenarios that women who have gotten an
abortion have gone through. It reports on how many of these women know that it is
morally wrong to do so or they are told they are doing something wrong because of

certain believes and values, yet they go through these abortions because they have a
choice. Women should not be shamed about their decisions and should be supported. This
article helps enforce the focus of why women should have a say in what happens with
their bodies and should also have the correct medical facilities available.
Planned Parenthood Center for Choice. (2016). Texas abortion laws. Retrieved from
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-center-for-choice/texasabortion-laws
This webpage provides readers with abortion services in the United States. In the
particular tab which is cited above provides with the abortion laws in the state of Texas. It
also comes with a list of all the documentation needed in order to proceed with an
abortion, the laws concerning a minor and some clinics located within the state. This
information is important in the writing of my paper because it provides the information
for me to educate the reader in the state of Texas, in which I am a resident of, and help
them seek a facility in which they can proceed with a legal abortion.

Obos Abortion Contributors. (2014, March 23). The impact of illegal abortion. Our Bodies Our
Selves. Retrieved from http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/impact-of-illegalabortion/
This article talks about the importance of making abortions legal for womens health
safety. Many women practice illegal abortions in which they put their lives at risk. The
article also includes statistics of the number of deaths before abortions became legal and
the number of illegal abortion practices in the United States. It also provides with
statistics of how abortion related deaths have decreased since these laws have been

passed. This information is crucial as reference for my paper because it supports my point
of view in the issue of abortion.
Roe v. Wade. (n.d.). Oyez. (2016, October 24). Retrieved from
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-18
This webpage allows readers to look up court cases and laws in the that have occurred
through history in the United States. It is a project started at Chicago- Kent. In which its
goal is to make the Supreme Court available to citizens. It Provides the major key
information in each case from who was involved, where it took place, the decision of the
case and the whole audio of the court case. This resource is helpful to my paper because
it is one of the first supreme course cases that gave women the right to have an abortion
within the first trimester. This court ruling caused several law changes in mostly all states
to accommodate to the protection of the fourteenth amendment.

Shaw, M. (2016, May 2). Becoming a mother made me even more pro-choice. Rewire. Retrieved
from https://rewire.news/article/2016/05/02/becoming-mother-made-even-pro-choice/
This article is written by a mother who is pro-choice and how she discusses how women
are frowned upon for taking this decision. The author points out several points as to why
women may want to seek abortions from not being financially nor emotionally ready to
not simply wanting to have a child. She states how women should not be shamed for the
choices they make regarding their lives nor be put down for their decisions because its
their bodies and they are the main affected party in the situation. This article is useful
because it can be used to show that women should have a choice to do as she pleases with
her body and her feature and should not be ashamed for going through an abortion.

Reed, B. (Producer). (2016, March 15). Short film on teen unplanned pregnancy. TRAPPED.
Video retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA2JYVxF48Q
This video shows the emotional situation many women not only young teens face when
they find out they are having an unplanned pregnancy. It shows how as a young teen ager
takes the decision to proceed an abortion since she has a scholarship at hand and a bright
feature and a baby in a way would prevent her from accomplishing her goals. The teen is
allowed to have a choice to what to do with the fetus and later changes her mind. This is
important because it demonstrates how the women should be allowed to make whatever
choice they please and should also be allowed to change their choice if they choose to.