Spain's official tourism website: Advice, info, tips and more.

Essay by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan seeking a middle ground in the abortion debate.

Gives the views from the medical profession's standpoint on political actions that could hamper the types of procedures performed on women ending pregnancies. From Salon Magazine.

ReligiousTolerance.org site describes the issues and various religious and ethical perspectives.

Article on the history of abortion in the United States, plus links to further information on abortion in the US and around the world. Includes prochoice and prolife links.

Pro and Con forum.

Information, features, and web links on the issue and on pro-life and pro-choice views.

An overview of legislative issues and court rulings affecting the abortion issue, including federal funding of abortion, partial birth abortion, parental notification, and spousal consent.

United Nations Population Division report on abortion laws and policies around the world, including a country-by-country survey. [Documents are in PDF and DOC formats.]

Effective meta-site containing facilitated access to relevant articles, books, court decisions, and current news articles. Biographical guide, discussion forum, Internet resources.

Outlines the history of abortion, restrictions on it, different religious views of abortion, and its current and evolving legal status around the world.

Abortion statistics reflecting world abortions, United States abortions, demographics of women receiving abortions and reasons for obtaining an abortion.

Gives the history and controversy of partial birth abortion, including the current status in the government.

News, background information, and links on abortion policy, including Roe v. Wade, RU-486, fetal tissue research, and related issues.

Describes how pro-life and pro-choice groups use dialogue and shared concerns to find common ground.

CBC archives of news reports and analyses on the abortion issue, focused on the Montreal doctor who broke the law and opened an abortion clinic in 1969. Includes TV and radio clips and educational materials.

Five articles about abortion in America before the Roe v. Wade decision. One is a personal account of the reasons for being a pro-life activist. The other four look at various aspects of the history of abortion in the U.S., from a pro-choice perspective.

Research study published in Psychology Today (Oct. 1998) addresses the relative developmental capabilities of the human fetus at particular gestation points. Relevant to abortion considerations.

A PBS archived documentary on an abortion clinic in Chester, Pennsylvania, along with an investigation on the women who went there and why. (April 18, 1983)

Large collection of short "facts" about scientific, constitutional, political and other aspects of the abortion debate. Fully footnoted to identify the sources of the information.

Daily reports on reproductive issues; often includes abortion-related news.

Principled yet pragmatic, Lincoln's stand on slavery offers a basis for a new politics of civility that is at once anti-abortion and pro-choice. Published in the Atlantic Monthly, September 1995.

Supreme Court verdict on five provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982.

An issue neutral, free public forum organization for abortion debate. Contains articles, essays, member posted facts, quotes and different views on the legal abortion issue.

Collection of political cartoons about the abortion issue from newspaper editorial cartoonists around the world.

Includes definitions of important terms, background information on abortion law, news stories about the issue, and various opinions. Produced for the Ohio University Computer Assisted Language Learning Lab.

An organization that calls itself anti-abortion yet pro-choice, and seeks to keep abortion legal and lessen it through increased birth control iniatives.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision which struck down many state laws restricting abortion. At the Legal Information Institue (Cornell University).

U.S. Supreme Court opinions on the controversial Nebraska partial-birth abortion case. Hosted by Cornell's Legal Information Institute.

Gives abortion laws and restrictions in over 192 nations and territories.

One person's attempt to take a rational look at the abortion debate, exposing flaws in the arguments on both sides. This is the preface from The Abortion Debate, a booklet for sale.

Personal philosophical essay that concludes that both pro-choice and pro-life positions, as understood by the author, contain anti-intuitive premises.

Text and commentary on Roe v. Wade and its successors. Other legal elements of abortion issue including state and canon law.