Pro-Life Movement

While there is extensive literature on the social history, politics, and legal aspects of birth control and abortion in the United States, the history of family planning as a policy remains to be fully recorded. This volume is intended to contribute to this history by examining birth control and abortion within a larger cultural, policy, and comparative framework. The essays contained in this volume represent a variety of perspectives and scholarly interests. In many instances the authors differ with each other as well as with the editor on fundamental points of historical interpretation. They all, however, share a commitment to study the politics of population within a scholarly framework that emphasizes the importance of policy history for understanding past and contemporary problems.

Exhibits Preface Introduction Single-Issue Parties in American History A Party is Born: Abortion and the Right To Life Party Activists and Identifiers Party Decay, Party Renewal, and Hybrid Multi-Partyism Epilogue Appendixes Bibliography Index

When The Ethics of Abortion first appeared, this powerful collection of essays gained instant recognition as one of the first attempts to present both sides of the abortion debate in the words of leading proponents. Now, after two major Supreme Court cases, intense political wrangling, and heavy media coverage of often violent public demonstrations, the editors have updated and revised this groundbreaking book by adding thirteen new selections and retaining many popular selections from the previous edition. Comprehensive and balanced, this popular volume in Prometheus's "Contemporary Issues" series offers nineteen essays and three excerpts from the high court's opinions in Roe v. Wade, which changed the face of abortion law for all time; Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989), which regulated the use of public facilities for abortions; and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), which imposed a waiting period and permitted parental notification. This provocative anthology covers such compelling issues as the pre-Roe abortion period in American history, abortion and the Constitution, abortion and feminism, abortion and Christianity, as well as the fundamental moral issues.

Jacoby provides a comprehensive social history of the abortion abolition campaign from its beginnings following Roe v. Wade through the 1996 elections. She explores the abortion abolition effort historically, sociologically, theologically, and politically, arguing for a deep understanding of American abortion opponents.

Examining key court cases, institutions, dramatic events, and public opinion, O'Connor highlights the dilemma of how a polity attempts to make decisions about issues on which agreement or compromise is unlikely.

Bowers argues that, when correctly interpreted and applied, the Constitution and the theory of liberty on which it is based require government to reject the conventional pro-choice and anti-abortion perspectives as too extreme and incomplete. Instead, this book sets forth a position that government is constitutionally obligated to approach abortion policy from a middle perspective. Relying on a jurisprudence of original theory, Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion forcefully asserts that government is constitutionally constrained to formulate abortion policy that is at once pro-choice and anti-abortion. In so arguing, this book walks readers through this constitutionally mandated middle position by introducing them to the liberal teachings of John Locke that were so influential to the framers of the Constitution and by applying this political theory to the major issues of the abortion controversy--including the individual liberty interest in the abortion decision, minors and abortions, the liberty interest of the fetal-being, and the Freedom of Choice Act.

Timed to the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, Wrath of Angels is a very human story of the rise of the antiabortion movement, its critical role in the creation of the Religious Right, and the movement's ultimate descent into violence.

People on both sides of the abortion issue are no longer as certain as they once were about the moral, ethical, and political issues involved. Now, this responsible and timely work sheds light on one of the most important American social protest movements of the 20th century.

Jim Risen, an investigative reporter in the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, and Judy Thomas, a reporter for the Kansas City Star, are widely acknowledged as leading journalistic experts on the antiabortion movement and are two of only a handful of reporters specializing in the abortion issue. From page one of their riveting book, these two brilliant writers capture all the drama of the movement and offer answers to those questions that have long shrouded the issue in heated controversy: Why did the Supreme Court decision generate a nationwide antiabortion movement? Why was the antiabortion movement transformed from a largely Catholic -- and easily ignored -- movement of mild protest into an angry movement of passionate Protestant fundamentalists who filled up the nation's jails as a result of their acts of civil disobedience? Why did the movement turn to violence?

This book traces the roots of the contemporary abortion debate in the tradition of existential philosophy of the Sartrian type by investigating the work of four feminist writers on abortion--each with a specific focus: Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Daly, Carol Gilligan, and Beverly Wildung Harrison.nbsp; No Higher Court attempts to envisage a pro-life feminism that is able to provide a "new world for women without abortion as its linchpin and bedrock."