Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Laying the Foundation for Federal FamilyPlanning Policy: The Eisenhower-Kennedy Years; 2. Moving Forward Quietly: FamilyPlanning in the Johnson Administration; 3. Implementing the Policy Revolution Under Johnson and Nixon; 4. The Backlash: Roman Catholics Contraceptives, Abortion, and Sterilization; 5. Richard Nixon and the Politicization of FamilyPlanning Policy; 6. Contesting the Policy Terrain After Roe: From Reagan to Clinton; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Summary
After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded familyplanning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history. The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal familyplanning movement, shifting its focus from population
