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The Abortion Controversy: A Documentary History

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ISBN-10:: 0313284768
ISBN-13:: 9780313284762
Pub. Date:: 02/23/1994
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic

ISBN-10:: 0313284768
ISBN-13:: 9780313284762
Pub. Date:: 02/23/1994
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic

The Abortion Controversy: A Documentary History

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This collection brings together for the first time the key primary documents in the history of the abortion controversy in the United States. Organized by historical period, these 92 documents tell the story of this highly charged issue. An explanatory introduction geared to the needs of high school and college students accompanies each document. The collection emphasizes the political and social aspects of the debate, and many voices and conflicting views resound—in congressional hearings, Supreme Court decisions, government reports, party platforms, position papers, statutes, biographical accounts, and news stories. The heart of the work is the drama of Roe v. Wade—the cases that led to it, the Supreme Court decision and dissenting opinions, the reaction in Congress, public opinion, political consequences, and the most recent court tests.

The work is divided into five sections: Part I covers the historical period from its European inception until the beginning of the reform movement in the United States in the 1960s. Part II looks at the developments in 1960-1972 that led to the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973. Part III focuses on Roe v. Wade and the reaction to the decision. Part IV, The Battlelines Are Drawn, 1974-1980, describes the political battles over abortion in the 1970s. Part V includes documents from the Reagan/Bush administrations and ends with the beginning of the Clinton administration in 1993. Each chapter includes a list of suggested readings. The book concludes with a chronology of events in the abortion controversy and a list of decisions of the United States Supreme Court relating to abortion. The collection will be especially useful for high school, junior college, and college students, and for public libraries.

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ISBN-13:	9780313284762
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/23/1994
Series:	Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

EVA R. RUBIN is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Abortion, Politics and the Courts (Greenwood Press, 1987, rev. edition) and The Supreme Court and the American Family (Greenwood Press, 1986).

Series Foreword
Introduction
Before 1960
The Early History of Abortion
The Common Law
A Short History of Abortion Policy in the United States: The Historians' Brief
The Medical Crusade against Abortion (1840-1880)
Criminal Abortion Laws
The Legal Prohibition of Contraception
Signs of Change (1940-1960)
The Abortion Reform Movement (1960-1972)
The Bad Old Days
The National Organization for Women
Two Reformers: Lawrence Lader and Patricia Maginnis
Mounting a Constitutional Attack on State Abortion Laws
Task Force Report on Family Law and Policy American Women, 1968
Feminist
The Thalidomide Scare and the German Measles Epidemic
Concern about Population Pressures
The Medical Profession: New Medical Techniques
California
Philosophical Arguments for and against the Liberalization of Abortion Laws
The 1973 Abortion Cases
The Constitutional Provisions: Liberty, Privacy, and the Ninth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
Griswold v. Connecticut and the Right to Privacy
How the Cases Got Started
Inside the Court
The Cases: Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton
Doe v. Bolton: The Companion Case
Public Reaction
Reaction in Congress
The Law Professors
The Battle Lines Are Drawn (1974-1980)
Missouri Passes a Restrictive Statute
Parental Consent and the Rights of Minors
State Cut Off Funding for Elective Abortions
Legislative Attempts by Congress to Limit Abortion
The Edelin Case (1975)
A Human Life Amendment
Hearing on Two Constitutional Amendments before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1974-1975
The Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights on the Human Life Amendments (1975)
Religious Groups Enter the Political Fray
Fundamentalist Chruches Become Involved in Politics
Abortion Becomes an Issue in Presidential Politics, 1976-1977
The Reagan and Bush Administration and Beyond (1980-)
Republican and Democratic Platform Statements on Abortion and the Selection of Judges (1980-1992)
Congress Deliberates
The Human Life Bill (1981)
The Freedom of Choice Bill (1992)
Packing the Supreme Court
Abortion Decisions by the Reagan-Bush Supreme Court, 1983-1992
Abortion Clinic Violence
Health Effects of Abortion on Women: the Koop Report, 1989
The Import Ban on a New Abortifacient Drug, RU-486
Epilogue: 1993 and After
Appendix A: Major Supreme Court Decisions Related to Abortion, 1973-1992
Appendix B: Chronology of Events in the Abortion Controversy
Index

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