The Right To Life Movement The Reagan Administration And The Politics Of Abortion

Author : Prudence Flowers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030017079
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Right-to-Life Movement, the Reagan Administration, and the Politics of Abortion written by Prudence Flowers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a political, ideological, and social history of the national right-to-life movement in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan. It analyzes anti-abortion engagement with the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, and offers what is frequently a narrative of disappointment and factionalism. The chapters explore pro-life responses to Supreme Court vacancies, attempts to pass a constitutional amendment, and broader legislative and bureaucratic strategies, including successful campaigns against international and domestic family planning programs. The book suggests that the 1980s transformed the anti-abortion cause, limiting the types of ideas and approaches possible at a national level. Although the movement later claimed Reagan as a "pro-life hero," while he was President right-to-lifers continuously struggled with the gap between his words and deeds. They also had a fraught relationship with the broader Republican Party. This book charts the political education of right-to-lifers, offering insights into social movement activism and conservatism in the late twentieth century.

Author : Deana A. Rohlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107069238
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America written by Deana A. Rohlinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together analyses of archival material, news coverage, and interviews conducted with journalists from mainstream and partisan outlets as well as with activists across the political spectrum, Deana A. Rohlinger reimagines how activists use a variety of mediums, sometimes simultaneously, to agitate for - and against - legal abortion. Rohlinger's in-depth portraits of four groups - the National Right to Life Committee, Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, and Concerned Women for America - illuminates when groups use media and why they might choose to avoid media attention altogether. Rohlinger expertly reveals why some activist groups are more desperate than others to attract media attention and sheds light on what this means for policy making and legal abortion in the twenty-first century.

Author : Ronald Reagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation written by Ronald Reagan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Ziegler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300265697
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dollars for Life written by Mary Ziegler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party “A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.”—Kirkus Reviews “As Mary Ziegler shows us in this incisive and important book, anti-abortion activists have shaped the GOP in ways that even they could not have anticipated. Everyone interested in the past and future of American politics should read this book.”—Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the anti-abortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo, right‑to‑lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how campaign spending—and the First Amendment—work. The anti-abortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in U.S. politics and persuaded conservative voters to fixate on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape that abortion foes created fueled the GOP’s embrace of populism and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view of the slow drift to extremes in American politics—and explains how it had everything to do with the strange intersection of right-to-life politics and campaign spending.

Author : Michele McKeegan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion Politics written by Michele McKeegan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion has once again moved to the top of the nation's agenda. Michelle McKeegan's lively and accessible book tells the story of how it first became a political issue and reveals how the New Right went too far, eventually becoming a political albatross to an increasingly divided Republican Party.

Author : Alisa Von Hagel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137539526
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reproductive Rights in the Age of Human Rights written by Alisa Von Hagel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at the state and federal level. The pro-life movement’s successes, both in legislative efforts to limit access to abortion as well changing the public’s perception of the pro-life movement, is surprising given American’s continued support of some level of access to abortion. Using a multi-method approach, the authors argue that these successes are a result of a dynamic and responsive movement, which has adapted both its discourse and public policy efforts since Roe v. Wade. With the Hobby Lobby ruling in 2014, the movement has successfully created its newest strategy, integrating claims of religious liberty to protect individuals and corporate entities. The book’s examination of the pro-life strategy highlights its current and future impact on human rights, reproductive rights, and right-wing politics.

Author : Daniel K. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199391645
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defenders of the Unborn written by Daniel K. Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative and insightful, Defenders of the Unborn is a must-read for anyone who craves a deeper understanding of a highly-charged issue"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reagan Administration and Human Rights written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any of his recent predecessors, President Reagan has raised fundamental questions regarding the directions of the human rights policies pursued for the past twenty years. The ten original essays collected in this volume examine the influence of the Reagan Administration on the Justice Department, voting rights, gender discrimination, the ERA, education, housing discrimination, the pro-family agenda, affirmative action, the Civil Rights Commission, and international human rights policy. By bringing together information on many areas of human rights, the volume presents an important overall picture of the Reagan administration's impact on this vital policy field.

Author : Dallas A. Blanchard
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anti-abortion Movement and the Rise of the Religious Right written by Dallas A. Blanchard and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologist and anthropologist Blanchard chronicles the evolution of the anti-abortion movement in the US from the modest efforts, mostly by priests and other Catholics, in the 1960s, through the major liberalizing court decisions, to the volatile and often violent protests of the 1990s. He says the single most important development has been the merging of the movement with the conservative political ideology of cultural fundamentalism. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Leslie J. Reagan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520387422
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Abortion Was a Crime written by Leslie J. Reagan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment. While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim "back alley" operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion providers—including physicians—practiced openly and safely, despite prohibitions by the state and the American Medical Association. Women could find cooperative and reliable practitioners; but prosecution, public humiliation, loss of privacy, and inferior medical care were a constant threat. Reagan's analysis of previously untapped sources, including inquest records and trial transcripts, shows the fragility of patient rights and raises provocative questions about the relationship between medicine and law. With the right to abortion increasingly under attack, this book remains the definitive history of abortion in the United States, offering vital lessons for every American concerned with health care, civil liberties, and personal and sexual freedom.