LibGuides: Religion and Reproductive Rights: Articles and Essays

Theology and religious stances

Selected Articles

Bartowski, J. (2012). Faith, Race-Ethnicity, and Public Policy Preferences: Religious Schemas and Abortion Attitudes among U.S. Latinos. Faculty Publications - Department of World Languages, Sociology & Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2012.01645.x
Bruce, T. C. (2020). Efficacy, distancing, and reconciling: religion and race in Americans’ abortion attitudes. Religions. 11(9), 475. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11090475
Castuera, I. (2017). A Social History of Christian Thought on Abortion: Ambiguity vs. Certainty in Moral Debate. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 76(1), 121–227. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12174
Cox, K. L. (2024). Reproductive Injustice as Social Sin: Mapping Sin Discourse into Debates about Fertility Decisions. Journal of Moral Theology, 6(CTEWC Book Series 6). https://lpts.on.worldcat.org/oclc/10400052641
Dozier, J. L., Hennink, M., Mosley, E., Narasimhan, S., Pringle, J., Clarke, L., ... & Rice, W. S. (2020). Abortion attitudes, religious and moral beliefs, and pastoral care among Protestant religious leaders in Georgia. PloS One, 15(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235971
Green, E. (2019, May 16). A Pastor’s Case for the Morality of Abortion. Atlantic Monthly. https:// www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/progressive-christians-abortion-jes-kast/590293/
Hensman, R. (2020). Christianity and Abortion Rights. Feminist Dissent. No. 5, 155-182. https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n5.2020.763
Hedayat, K. M., Shooshtarizadeh, P., & Raza, M. (2006). Therapeutic abortion in Islam: contemporary views of Muslim Shiite scholars and effect of recent Iranian legislation. Journal of medical ethics, 32(11), 652–657. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.2005.015289
Hessini L. (2007). Abortion and Islam: policies and practice in the Middle East and North Africa. Reproductive health matters, 15(29), 75–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-8080(06)29279-6
Hoffmann, J. P., & Johnson, S. M. (2005). Attitudes toward abortion among religious traditions in the United States: Change or continuity?. Sociology of Religion, 66(2), 161-182. https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n5.2020.763
In the shade of Allah’s mercy : reflections on Islam, embodiment and abortion : reflective essays and poetry. (2013). Journal for Islamic Studies, 33(1), 204–215. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC150074
Kraemer, D. (1993). Jewish ethics and abortion. Tikkun 8(1), 55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/828625
Petersen, L. R. (2001). Religion, Plausibility Structures, and Education’s Effect on Attitudes toward Elective Abortion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40(2), 187–203. https://doi.org/10.1111/0021-8294.00050
Roat, O. (2022) Free-Exercise Arguments for the Right to Abortion: Reimagining the Relationship Between Religion and Reproductive Rights. UCLA Women's Law Journal, 29(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4100833
Serour G. I. (2008). Islamic perspectives in human reproduction. Reproductive biomedicine online, 17 Suppl 3, 34–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60328-8
Wu, B., & Kimura Ida, A. (2018). Ethnic Diversity, Religion, and Opinions toward Legalizing Abortion: The Case of Asian Americans. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 5(1), 94–109. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/92

Reproductive Justice

Selected articles

Abrams, Z. (2023, June 1). Abortion bans cause outsized harm for people of color. Monitor on Psychology. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/06/abortion-bans-harm-people-of-color
Black Mamas Matter Alliance. (2018). Black Mamas Matter: Advancing the human right to safe and respectful maternal healthcare. Black Mamas Matter Alliance. Retrived Nov. 5, 2024. https://blackmamasmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/USPA_BMMA_Toolkit_Booklet-Final-Update_Web-Pages.pdf
Beisel, N., & Kay, T. (2004). Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America. American Sociological Review, 69(4), 498–518. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112258
Brown, K., Laverde, R., Barr-Walker, J., & Steinauer, J. (2022). Understanding the role of race in abortion stigma in the United States: a systematic scoping review. Sexual and reproductive health matters, 30(1), 2141972. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2022.2141972.
Brown, K., Laverde, R., Barr-Walker, J., & Steinauer, J. (2022). Understanding the role of race in abortion stigma in the United States: a systematic scoping review. Sexual and reproductive health matters, 30(1), 2141972. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2022.2141972.
Hill, L., Artiga, S., Ranji, U., Gomez, I. (2024 April) What Are the Implications of the Dobbs Ruling for Racial Disparities? KFF. https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/what-are-the-implications-of-the-dobbs-ruling-for-racial-disparities/
Jones, S. (2023). A Fundamental Violation of Basic Human Rights: An Interview With Loretta J. Ross. Dissent. 70(1), 24–31. https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0026 Barriers to sexual and Reproductive health services faced by immigrant women of reproductive age in the United States, (2023, January). Ibis Reproductive Health. Retrieved October 31, 2024. https://www.ibisreproductivehealth.org/publications/barriers-sexual-and-reproductive-health-services-faced-immigrant-women-reproductive-age
Kozhimannil, K. B., Hassan, A., & Hardeman, R. R. (2022). Abortion Access as a Racial Justice Issue. The New England journal of medicine, 387(17), 1537–1539. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2209737
Lawrence, J. (2000). The Indian Health Service and the Sterilization of Native American Women. American Indian Quarterly, 24(3), 400–419. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1185911.
Medosch, E. (2021, May 28). Not Just ICE: Forced Sterilization in the United States. Immigration and Human Rights Law Review. https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/05/28/not-just-ice-forced-sterilization-in-the-united-states/
Ross, L.J. (1992). African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 3(2), 274-284. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2010.0241.
Salas, G. (2020, October 20). A Brief History of Sterilization Abuse in the U.S. and its Connection to Alleged ICE Mass Hysterectomies in Georgia. Nation Women's Health Network. https://nwhn.org/a-brief-history-of-sterilization-abuse-in-the-u-s-and-its-connection-to-ice-mass-hysterectomies-in-georgia/
Smaw, E. D. (2022). Uterus collectors: The case for reproductive justice for African American, Native American, and Hispanic American female victims of eugenics programs in the United States. Bioethics, 36(3), 318–327. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12977
Phelan, P. (2022). The Dobbs Decision: Abortion, Adoption, and the Supreme Court. Adoption & Culture 10(2), 171-183. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0013.

LGBTQIA

Selected Articles

Kcomt, L., Gorey, K. M., Barrett, B. J., & McCabe, S. E. (2020). Healthcare avoidance due to anticipated discrimination among transgender people: A call to create trans-affirmative environments. SSM - population health, 11, 100608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100608
Price K. Queering Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era: A Note on Political Intersectionality. Politics & Gender. 2018;14(4):581-601. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x18000776 ·
Stacey J. (2018). Queer reproductive justice?. Reproductive biomedicine & society online, 7, 4–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2018.06.004

Economic Factors

Selected Articles

Brawley, V. (2024) Use of Shackles on Incarcerated Pregnant Women. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 53(1) 79 – 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogn.2023.09.005
Bertotti, A. M. (2013). Gendered Divisions of Fertility Work: Socioeconomic Predictors of Female Versus Male Sterilization. Journal of Marriage and Family, 75(1), 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01031.x
Edin, K., & Reed, J. M. (2005). Why don’t they just get married? Barriers to marriage among the disadvantaged. The Future of Children, 15(2), 117–137. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/foc.2005.0017.
Kimport, K., Weitz, T. A., & Freedman, L. (2016). The Stratified Legitimacy of Abortions. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 57(4), 503–516. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146516669970
Krase, K.S. (2014). History of forced sterilization and current U.S. abuses. Our Bodies, Ourselves. Retrieved Nov. 5, 2024 http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/forced-sterilization/
Ranji, U. (2019, November 14). Beyond the Numbers: Access to Reproductive Health Care for Low-Income Women in Five Communities. KFF. https://www.kff.org/report-section/beyond-the-numbers-access-to-reproductive-health-care-for-low-income-women-in-five-communities-executive-summary.

Religion and Reproductive Rights

Theology and religious stances

Selected Articles

Bartowski, J. (2012). Faith, Race-Ethnicity, and Public Policy Preferences: Religious Schemas and Abortion Attitudes among U.S. Latinos. Faculty Publications - Department of World Languages, Sociology & Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2012.01645.x

Bruce, T. C. (2020). Efficacy, distancing, and reconciling: religion and race in Americans’ abortion attitudes. Religions. 11(9), 475. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11090475

Castuera, I. (2017). A Social History of Christian Thought on Abortion: Ambiguity vs. Certainty in Moral Debate. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 76(1), 121–227. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12174

Cox, K. L. (2024). Reproductive Injustice as Social Sin: Mapping Sin Discourse into Debates about Fertility Decisions. Journal of Moral Theology, 6(CTEWC Book Series 6). https://lpts.on.worldcat.org/oclc/10400052641

Dozier, J. L., Hennink, M., Mosley, E., Narasimhan, S., Pringle, J., Clarke, L., ... & Rice, W. S. (2020). Abortion attitudes, religious and moral beliefs, and pastoral care among Protestant religious leaders in Georgia. PloS One, 15(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235971

Green, E. (2019, May 16). A Pastor’s Case for the Morality of Abortion. Atlantic Monthly. https:// www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/progressive-christians-abortion-jes-kast/590293/

Hensman, R. (2020). Christianity and Abortion Rights. Feminist Dissent. No. 5, 155-182. https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n5.2020.763

Hedayat, K. M., Shooshtarizadeh, P., & Raza, M. (2006). Therapeutic abortion in Islam: contemporary views of Muslim Shiite scholars and effect of recent Iranian legislation. Journal of medical ethics, 32(11), 652–657. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.2005.015289

Hessini L. (2007). Abortion and Islam: policies and practice in the Middle East and North Africa. Reproductive health matters, 15(29), 75–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-8080(06)29279-6

Hoffmann, J. P., & Johnson, S. M. (2005). Attitudes toward abortion among religious traditions in the United States: Change or continuity?. Sociology of Religion, 66(2), 161-182. https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n5.2020.763

In the shade of Allah’s mercy : reflections on Islam, embodiment and abortion : reflective essays and poetry. (2013). Journal for Islamic Studies, 33(1), 204–215. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC150074

Kraemer, D. (1993). Jewish ethics and abortion. Tikkun 8(1), 55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/828625

Petersen, L. R. (2001). Religion, Plausibility Structures, and Education’s Effect on Attitudes toward Elective Abortion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40(2), 187–203. https://doi.org/10.1111/0021-8294.00050

Roat, O. (2022) Free-Exercise Arguments for the Right to Abortion: Reimagining the Relationship Between Religion and Reproductive Rights. UCLA Women's Law Journal, 29(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4100833

Serour G. I. (2008). Islamic perspectives in human reproduction. Reproductive biomedicine online, 17 Suppl 3, 34–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60328-8

Wu, B., & Kimura Ida, A. (2018). Ethnic Diversity, Religion, and Opinions toward Legalizing Abortion: The Case of Asian Americans. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 5(1), 94–109. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/92

Reproductive Justice

Selected articles

Abrams, Z. (2023, June 1). Abortion bans cause outsized harm for people of color. Monitor on Psychology. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/06/abortion-bans-harm-people-of-color

Black Mamas Matter Alliance. (2018). Black Mamas Matter: Advancing the human right to safe and respectful maternal healthcare. Black Mamas Matter Alliance. Retrived Nov. 5, 2024. https://blackmamasmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/USPA_BMMA_Toolkit_Booklet-Final-Update_Web-Pages.pdf

Beisel, N., & Kay, T. (2004). Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America. American Sociological Review, 69(4), 498–518. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112258

Brown, K., Laverde, R., Barr-Walker, J., & Steinauer, J. (2022). Understanding the role of race in abortion stigma in the United States: a systematic scoping review. Sexual and reproductive health matters, 30(1), 2141972. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2022.2141972.

Brown, K., Laverde, R., Barr-Walker, J., & Steinauer, J. (2022). Understanding the role of race in abortion stigma in the United States: a systematic scoping review. Sexual and reproductive health matters, 30(1), 2141972. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2022.2141972.

Hill, L., Artiga, S., Ranji, U., Gomez, I. (2024 April) What Are the Implications of the Dobbs Ruling for Racial Disparities? KFF. https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/what-are-the-implications-of-the-dobbs-ruling-for-racial-disparities/

Kozhimannil, K. B., Hassan, A., & Hardeman, R. R. (2022). Abortion Access as a Racial Justice Issue. The New England journal of medicine, 387(17), 1537–1539. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2209737

Lawrence, J. (2000). The Indian Health Service and the Sterilization of Native American Women. American Indian Quarterly, 24(3), 400–419. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1185911.

Medosch, E. (2021, May 28). Not Just ICE: Forced Sterilization in the United States. Immigration and Human Rights Law Review. https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/05/28/not-just-ice-forced-sterilization-in-the-united-states/

Ross, L.J. (1992). African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 3(2), 274-284. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2010.0241.

Smaw, E. D. (2022). Uterus collectors: The case for reproductive justice for African American, Native American, and Hispanic American female victims of eugenics programs in the United States. Bioethics, 36(3), 318–327. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12977

Phelan, P. (2022). The Dobbs Decision: Abortion, Adoption, and the Supreme Court. Adoption & Culture 10(2), 171-183. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0013.

LGBTQIA

Selected Articles

Kcomt, L., Gorey, K. M., Barrett, B. J., & McCabe, S. E. (2020). Healthcare avoidance due to anticipated discrimination among transgender people: A call to create trans-affirmative environments. SSM - population health, 11, 100608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100608

Price K. Queering Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era: A Note on Political Intersectionality. Politics & Gender. 2018;14(4):581-601. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x18000776 ·

Stacey J. (2018). Queer reproductive justice?. Reproductive biomedicine & society online, 7, 4–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2018.06.004

Economic Factors

Selected Articles

Brawley, V. (2024) Use of Shackles on Incarcerated Pregnant Women. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 53(1) 79 – 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogn.2023.09.005

Bertotti, A. M. (2013). Gendered Divisions of Fertility Work: Socioeconomic Predictors of Female Versus Male Sterilization. Journal of Marriage and Family, 75(1), 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01031.x

Edin, K., & Reed, J. M. (2005). Why don’t they just get married? Barriers to marriage among the disadvantaged. The Future of Children, 15(2), 117–137. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/foc.2005.0017.

Kimport, K., Weitz, T. A., & Freedman, L. (2016). The Stratified Legitimacy of Abortions. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 57(4), 503–516. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146516669970

Krase, K.S. (2014). History of forced sterilization and current U.S. abuses. Our Bodies, Ourselves. Retrieved Nov. 5, 2024 http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/forced-sterilization/

Ranji, U. (2019, November 14). Beyond the Numbers: Access to Reproductive Health Care for Low-Income Women in Five Communities. KFF. https://www.kff.org/report-section/beyond-the-numbers-access-to-reproductive-health-care-for-low-income-women-in-five-communities-executive-summary.