Safe, Legal, and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United StatesSAGE Publications, 2007 - 235 páginas The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Yet while the medical procedure is legal—and safe—many women across the country do not have the ability to exercise this reproductive right. Melody Rose examines abortion as a social regulatory policy, thoughtfully and thoroughly chronicling the erosion of abortion rights and availability since Roe. Paying respect to all views of this controversial topic in her engaging new book, Rose explores the success of the right-to-life movement in accumulating local and national policies that restrict access to abortion while enhancing fetal protections. In addition to a basic and brief primer on the practice and history of abortion, Rose considers the roles played by the courts, political parties, and interest groups in constructing barriers to abortion. With an examination of public opinion poll data and a look at both state and national statutory prohibitions on abortion, Rose also shows how powerful language wars have resulted in material policy alterations. Chapter-opening vignettes and vivid storytelling make this brief and topical supplement a good read that is sure to get your students thinking critically about this highly charged topic. As well, the author has augmented chapters with further reading suggestions and provocative discussion questions that invite insightful discussion and analysis. |
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... wanted to make abortion illegal , given the strength of the Roe ruling and the lack of political will in the nation's capital , they simply could not do it . The movement then shifted its focus to making abortion inaccessible to as many ...
... wanted legal protection from pros- ecution when they performed abortions for reasons other than the severe medical ones most likely to garner public empathy and review board clearance . 10 In part , this reform movement helped spawn the ...
... wanted him to sign the Human Life Bill to extend Fourteenth Amendment protection to the unborn , but he was helpful to those same activists in that he effectively shifted the very terms of the abortion debate beyond the nation's borders ...
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Just the Facts | 30 |
Conclusion | 50 |
Abortion on Demand? The Supreme Court | 57 |
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