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The Abortion Dispute and the American System

by Roger H. Davidson, Lawrence M. Friedman, Cynthia E. Harrison, John E. Jackson, G. Calvin Mackenzie, Maris A. Vinovskis, Gilbert Y. Steiner. 106 pgs.

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Table of contents
Contents
Gilbert Y. Steiner Introduction: Abortion Policy and the Potential for Mischief 1
A Troubling Question
To Improve the Debate and Protect the System
The Brookings Symposium
Lawrence M. Friedman The Conflict over Constitutional Legitimacy 13
The Question of Legitimacy
Roe v. Wade and Its Forebears
The Social Issue
The Response to Roe v. Wade
The Funding Cases
Stability and Change
Roger H. Davidson Procedures and Politics in Congress 30
Attempts to Prohibit Abortion
Curbing Abortion Funding
Conclusions
G. Calvin Mackenzie A Test of Fitness for Presidential Appointment? 47
The Record to Date
Making the Future Work
Conclusion
John E. Jackson and Maris A. Vinovskis Public Opinion, Elections, and the "Single-Issue" Issue 64
Interpreting Public Opinion
Elections and the Politics of Abortion
Single-Issue Politics and American Governance
Gilbert Y. Steiner Reactions of the Symposium 82
Constitutional Legitimacy
Congress
Presidential Appointments
Public Opinion and Elections
Symposium Participants 93
Cynthia E. Harrison Appendix: The Prohibition Experience 95
Unanticipated Results
Attempts at Improvement
The End of the Experiment
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The Abortion Dispute and the American System
Book by Gilbert Y. Steiner, Lawrence M. Friedman, Roger H. Davidson, G. Calvin Mackenzie, John E. Jackson, Maris A. Vinovskis, Cynthia E. Harrison; Brookings Institution, 1983
Subjects: Abortion--Government Policy--United States--Congresses, Abortion--Law And Legislation--United States--Congresses, Abortion--Moral And Ethical Aspects--Congresses
...dispute and the American system. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Abortion--Government policy-- United States-- Congresses. 2. Abortion--United States--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses. 3. Abortion--Law and legislation...
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The Politics of Abortion in the United States and Canada: A Comparative Study
Book by Raymond Tatalovich; M. E. Sharpe, 1997
Subjects: Abortion--Government Policy--Canada, Abortion--Government Policy--United States, Abortion--Political Aspects--Canada, Abortion--Political Aspects--United States, Pro-Choice Movement--Canada, Pro-Choice Movement--United States, Pro-Life Movement--Canada, Pro-Life Movement--United States
...refused to act. In the United States abortion was legalized by the landmark...Canadas reformed abortion law of 1969, though the adoption...constitutional court can invalidate legislation; there the abortion dispute...United States In the United States abortion was not prohibited or regulated...Lader 1966, 87 . This law became a model for legislation by other states, but before...decide whether to have an abortion, free from governmental...Lawyers Division and the Law Student Division. The...equality guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and opposes legislation or other governmental action...
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Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States
Book by Myra Marx Ferree, William Anthony Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards, Dieter Rucht; Cambridge University Press, 2002
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...trace the paths by which law and policy were shaped...through intense debates on abortion in the first third of the twentieth century while the United States witnessed what Luker 1984...some form of restrictive legislation, until the late 1950s. Planned...central to this wave of legislation. 18 This latter...and social. 19 This law so contentiously arrived...one who would perform the abortion, at least a three-day waiting...even as the debate in the United States began to heat up. ACT...UNEASY COMPROMISE UNITED STATES In June 1989, the Supreme...restrictions in the Missouri law while throwing out others...for efforts to adopt new abortion restrictions and there would...legislatures to pass restrictive legislation that might pass muster as...
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...Social Access for the Deaf in the United States 183 ROBERT R. DAVILA...deaf people directing professional or governmental programs serving deaf people. A clear...definitively in a series of stage-managed congresses of hearing educators of the deaf. The...Research in Social Problems and Public Policy , vol 2, ed. M. Lewis Greenwich, Conn...
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Abortion Controversy in Canada and the United States
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...because the abortion controversy in the United States has become embroiled in the ongoing...politically strident offensive against abortion, (36) the Canadian bishops have taken...the health of the mother" allowed government to "regulate the abortion procedure...created the most one- sided abortion policy of any Western democracy. (43) In...Schier of abortion voting in eight Congresses during the 1970s and 1980s. (66...
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Treaties' End: The Past, Present, and Future of International Lawmaking in the United States
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...for treaties than for domestic legislation. Of these, only ten (again, including the United States) explicitly provide in their...incorporation of international law into domestic law. (85) Those...become effective as "internal law" in the United States only through legislation that would be valid in the absence...international obligation on the United States that would be unenforceable as a matter of domestic law--because the necessary implementing legislation has not been passed--leaving...
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Policy Learning in Policy Domains with Value Conflicts: The Austrian Cases of Abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (1)
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...persons. The AC was united by its common goal...existing restrictive abortion law by decriminalising...in the party, in government and in parliament...did not pursue policy change actively...several jurists congresses and many publications...various federal states of the USA. As...aspects. Whereas abortion is a mature and even ancient policy domain, connected...
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Death, Be Not Proud
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...media are truly impressive. The United States alone has more than 200 Christian...primary concerns, most notably banning abortion and reinstating school prayer. Instead...its efforts to shape U.S. foreign policy, religious conservatives have also...preferences for a free market, limited government, strong defense, and national sovereignty...Christian Right not only sees the United Nations as a threat to the American...it takes three presidents and six congresses to pass these items, were going to...
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More Polarizing Than Rehnquist: Chief Justice John Roberts Won Senate Confirmation by Vowing to Shun Ideological Activism. Instead, by Trashing Judicial Precedent and Legislative Statutes, He's Reshaping Law to Fit Conservative Dogma
Magazine article by Simon Lazarus; The American Prospect, Vol. 18, May 2007
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...nine "nos" from red states), Clarence Thomas...benign" or "compelling" governmental interest (to which...their political and policy agendas, blew right...preempting public debate on abortion policy). Roberts may...Lyndon Johnson, and the Congresses over which they presided...toward stretching the law to undermine six decades of liberal reform legislation and decisions and...National Senior Citizens Law Center.
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Does Federalism Have a Future?
Magazine article by Pietro S. Nivola; Public Interest, Winter 2001
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...grants-in-aid and instances of what policy makers a few years earlier had characterized...unwanted financial liabilities on the states. Measures preempting the states...constitutional objections against the governments intrusions. One witness spoke of...investment, and financial capital. In the United States, as in other major trading...Whatever ones views on legalized abortion, for instance, substantial segments...calls in the 98th through the 101st Congresses actually found the Republicans more...
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Hidden Riders
Magazine article; Whole Earth, Fall 1998
Subjects: Bills, Legislative--Interpretation and construction, United States. Congress--Political activity
...passed. The 104th and 105th Congresses have championed, with a shameless...as in 1996, wait until the government has no money. During the...take a public position on abortion, even if done with the organizations...the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species...floor debate or stand-alone legislation, what does it mean to say...
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Ashcroft Swearing Set Today at Justice
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