Safe, legal, and unavailable? : abortion politics in the United States, Melody Rose

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Safe, legal, and unavailable? : abortion politics in the United States, Melody Rose

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• https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781933116891
• http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006022032.html
• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9887879M

Title remainder

abortion politics in the United States

Statement of responsibility

Melody Rose

Instantiates

• Safe, legal, and unavailable? : abortion politics in the United States

Publication

• Washington, D.C., CQ Press, ©2007

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents

• Abortion as social regulatory policy
• Political labels
• Research methodology
• Maternal and fetal citizenship
• Book overview
• Discussion questions
• Suggested reading
• Notes
• 1.
• Abortion : just the facts
• Tables, figures, and map
• Is the United States unique on the world stage?
• Incidence of abortion in the United States
• The United States compared to the world
• Why women have abortions
• Abortion and safety
• Who has abortions in the United States
• When women have abortions
• The court of public opinion
• Conclusion
• Discussion questions
• Preface
• Suggested reading
• Notes
• 2.
• Abortion on demand? : the Supreme Court and abortion rights
• Physicians as authorities
• The Supreme Court's first appearance in abortion policy : challenges to the Comstock Law
• Margaret Sanger : advocate for women's reproductive rights
• Physicians and the contraception and abortion movements
• The U.S. Supreme Court acknowledges a right to privacy
• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Introduction
• Roe v. Wade
• The intermediate years : protecting choice, denying rights
• Neutral no more : Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
• Casey : supplanting doctor authority with state authority
• Stenberg v. Carhart : a footnote or a shift?
• Conclusion
• Discussion questions
• Suggested reading
• Notes
• A brief history of American abortion policy
• The early years
• The movement to re-legalize abortion
• The opposition emerges
• The current debate
• A lack of education
• Pharmacists as roadblocks to abortion
• Statutory barriers to abortion access
• Illegal and unenforceable barriers
• Legal barriers
• Barriers to funding
• State protections for abortion
• Patterns of restriction and protection
• State protections for the fetus
• Conclusion
• 3.
• Discussion questions
• Suggested reading
• Notes
• 4.
• Abortion and the federal government
• Constitutional amendment or statutory ban?
• Banning federal funding of abortion
• The pro-life movement begins to organize
• The pro-life movement sets the terms of the debate
• A new strategy for a new century : persuade, protect, and prohibit
• Abortion restrictions in the states
• Persuade
• Statutory protection of the fetus
• Prohibit
• Nomination politics and the making of a new Supreme Court
• Conclusion
• Discussion questions
• Suggested reading
• Notes
• Practical barriers to abortion access
• Location of providers
• Competition and profit margins
• The graying of a generation
• Anti-abortion extremism and violence
• Pro-choice advocates respond
• The 1990s : republican loyalty and democratic disunity
• 2000 and beyond : party platforms dictate policy
• Party in government
• Crossing party lines on funding
• Partisan loyalty in prohibition and fetal protection
• Democratic disunity, republican unity
• The 2004 election : abortion as a wedge issue?
• Conclusion
• Discussion questions
• Suggested reading
• 5.
• Notes
• 6.
• Conclusion : the pendulum swings
• Introduction : where could we go from here?
• The physicians return
• Women's self-help movement
• The religious left
• Conclusion
• Discussion questions
• Suggested reading
• Pro-choice, pro-life, or pro-birth? : the partisan maneuverings of abortion politics
• Notes
• Appendix A : Landmark contraception and abortion cases
• Appendix B : National political party platforms statements on abortion
• Appendix C : Web resources
• Index
• About the author
• Party lines converge
• General party lines
• The parties organize to win elections
• The 1960s : the parties of Lincoln and Douglas
• The 1970s : new coalitions for new positions
• The 1980s : the parties change sides

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1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages

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isbn_9781933116891

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(OCoLC)1035893768