After Roe the lost history of the abortion debate
"Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural and political responses to the...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The pro-life movement after Roe. Judicial activism and the pro-life movement
- The incrementalist ascendancy
- Part II: The abortion-rights movement after Roe. Women's rights versus population control: abortion and racial politics
- The rise of choice: single-issue politics and privacy arguments
- Part III: The movement-countermovement dynamic after Roe. The popular reinterpretation of Roe v. Wade
- Compromise and polarization.
