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1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : tables |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Laying the foundation for federal family planning policy : the Eisenhower-Kennedy years -- Moving forward quietly : family planning in the Johnson administration -- Implementing the policy revolution under Johnson and Nixon -- The backlash : Roman Catholics, contraceptives, abortion, and sterilization -- Richard Nixon and the politicization of family planning policy -- Contesting the policy terrain after "Roe" : from Reagan to Clinton -- Conclusion |
| 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 family planning. This book 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 family planning movement, shifting its focus from population control directed by established interests in the philanthropic community to highly polarized pro-abortion and anti-abortion groups mobilized at the grass-roots level. And when the Supreme Court granted women the Constitutional right to legal abortion in 1973, what began as a bi-partisan, quiet revolution during the administrations of Kennedy and Johnson exploded into a contentious argument over sexuality, welfare, the role of women, and the breakdown of traditional family values. This text encompasses over four decades of political history, examining everything from the aftermath of the Republican moral revolution during the Reagan and Bush years to the current culture wars concerning unwed motherhood, homosexuality, and the further protection of women's abortion rights. Critchlow's carefully balanced appraisal of federal birth control and abortion policy reveals that despite the controversy, the family planning movement has indeed accomplished much in the way of its intended goal--the reduction of population growth in many parts of the world. "Intended Consequences" unfolds the history of how the federal government found its way into private American bedrooms |
| Bibliography |
Includes chapter notes with bibliographical references (pages [239]-296), and index |
| Notes |
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USA Government gnd |
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Birth control -- Government policy -- United States
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Abortion -- Government policy -- United States
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Abortion.
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Politics, Practical.
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Family Planning Policy
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Abortion, Legal
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Politics
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politics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Abortion & Birth Control.
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Politics, Practical
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Abortion
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Abortion -- Government policy
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Birth control -- Government policy
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Politics and government
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Social policy
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Geburtenregelung
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Schwangerschaftsabbruch
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Régulation des naissances -- Politique publique -- États-Unis.
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Avortement -- Politique publique -- États-Unis.
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United States -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
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United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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United States -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140291
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United States |
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United States
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États-Unis -- Politique sociale.
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| Genre/Form |
Instructional and educational works.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423736729 |
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9781423736721 |
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9780195145939 |
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0195145933 |
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