Bearing right : how conservatives won the abortion war
"Journalist William Saletan reveals exactly how, thirty years after Roe v. Wade, "pro-choice" conservatives have won the abortion war. Having successfully turned abortion into a privacy issue, conservatives now prevail on issues ranging from abortion's legality and parental notification to Medicaid, rape, and cloning; consequently, reproductive autonomy is now becoming inaccessible to the young and the poor. This eye-opening expose tells how abortion rights activists - people who desired social change, women's equality, and broader access to healthcare - have had their message co-opted in a culture of privacy and limited government. Bearing Right is also a story about the essentially conservative character of the United States today." "This book teaches a crucial lesson about how politicians and interest groups can change the way we vote, not by telling us facts or lies but by reshaping the way we think - in part through mass marketing. Today, the abortion rights movement must ask itself what it has won and what it is fighting for. This book is sure to play a role in answering that question."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2003
327 pages ; 24 cm
9780520086883, 9780520243361, 0520086880, 0520243366
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A place called hope
Privacy and prejudice
Who decided
The new mainstream
Triage
Middle ground
Victims and villains
The right to choose life
The era of big government
Fatal position