reproductive justice

Killing the Black Body

Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

By: Dorothy Roberts
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of  the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over... Read more

Controlling Women

What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

By: Kathryn Kolbert & Julie F. Kay
Narrated by: Kathryn Kolbert, Julie F. Kay & Ellen Archer
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

From two lawyers at the forefront of the reproductive rights movement, this fully updated book shares bold strategies meant to help restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights. Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected abortion rights and Planned Parenthood v. Casey unexpectedly preserved them. Yet in... Read more

Belabored

A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women

By: Lyz Lenz
Narrated by: Natalie Peyser
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

In Belabored, Lyz Lenz will "make you cry in one paragraph and snort-laugh in the next" (Chloe Angyal, contributing editor at MarieClaire.com).

Written with a blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, Belabored is an impassioned and irreverent defense of the autonomy, rights, and dignity of pregnant people. Lenz shows how religious, historical, and... Read more

No Choice

The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right

By: Becca Andrews
Narrated by: Marisha Tapera & Becca Andrews
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of the battle to protect the right to choose

The pieces started to fall In 2019 when a wave of anti-abortion laws went into effect. Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky banned abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, while Missouri banned... Read more

Ejaculate Responsibly

A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
Narrated by: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

“We've put the burden of pregnancy prevention on the person who is fertile for 24 hours a month, instead of the person who is fertile 24 hours a day, every day of their life. Abortion is a men's issue. Blair does a terrific job of explaining the science behind pregnancy. She makes a strong point about how women take sex safety into their own... Read more

Bodies on the Line

At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

By: Lauren Rankin
Narrated by: Kate Udall
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

A powerfully empathetic and impeccably researched look at abortion clinic escorting



Abortion has been legal for nearly fifty years in the United States, but with a new conservative majority on the Supreme Court and an emboldened opposition in the street, the threat to its existence has never been more pressing. Clinic escorts—everyday... Read more

Reproductive Justice

An Introduction

By: Loretta Ross & Rickie Solinger
Narrated by: Holly Adams & Julienne Irons
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger put the lives and lived experience of... Read more

Birthing Liberation

How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free

By: Sabia Wade
Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Black maternal mortality statistics have not shifted in the past thirty years.

The maternal mortality rate for Black patients is four to five times higher than it is for White patients. This is just one example of racism as a health and national crisis, but it is a particularly tragic one.

Birthing Liberation presents reproductive justice as the... Read more

You're the Only One I've Told

The Stories Behind Abortion

By: Dr. Meera Shah
Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few years, Shah decided it was time to be direct. "I'm an abortion provider," she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new. One by one, people would confide—at... Read more

The Turnaway Study

The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion

By: Diana Greene Foster
Narrated by: Samantha Desz & Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” —Gloria Steinem

The “remarkable” (The New Yorker) landmark study of the consequences on women’s lives—emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and... Read more

The Story of Jane

The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

By: Laura Kaplan
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

First published in 1997, The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of Jane, the underground group in Chicago that performed abortion services before the procedure was legalized. An extraordinary history by one of its members, this is the first account of Jane's evolution, the conflicts within the group, and the impact its work had both on the... Read more

Deep Care

The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

By: Angela Hume
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment that can be easily bought and assembled at home. This "self-help" movement grew into a robust national... Read more