This is an extremely useful collection of writings on the abortion issue that will be of interest to scholars, activists, and the general public. The book is noteworthy both for its breadth and the depth of its selections.
—Carole Joffe, PhD, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
A must read for anyone in the reproductive health rights or human rights movement.
—Denise Shervington, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Medical Center
A valuable addition to the literature on the psychology of abortion, this book provides a broad overview of public policy, research, and practice issues about abortion…The editors acknowledge that their feminist beliefs and feminist scholarship shaped the content included in this volume. With but a few exception, this orientation does not detract from the objectivity, tone and substance of the book… [T]his volume is a valuable addition to the field of the psychology of abortion…the book contains some of the best information available in the mainstream psychological literature on abortion.
—Population and Environmental Psychology Bulletin/APA Division 34, Vol 25, No 3, Autumn 1999
The New Civil War is a significant addition to the literature of the contemporary abortion debate… The New Civil War should be on the shelves of medical as well as psychological practitioners and on the reading list of social scientists and historians concerned with reproductive issues.
—CHOICE, April 1999, Vol 36, No 8
If you… want to read an engaging, comprehensive, and persuasive example of how and why to do psychology in the public interest, this book is for you… Beckman and Harvey have assembled an interdisciplinary set of contributors in order to place abortion in its historical, cultural, and sociopolitical context…This is a book that will appeal to psychologists, lobbyists, policy-makes, clinic personnel, and students in psychology, medicine, women's studies, and political science. Most of the chapters are accessible to students, and I encourage faculty to consider adding to their syllabi some chapters from The New Civil War.
—Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24 (2000), 200–208
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