Intended Consequences Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government in Modern America

Name: Intended Consequences Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government in Modern America
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ISBN: 9780195046571

ISBN-10: 0195046579

ISBN-13: 9780195046571

Edition: 1999

Authors: Donald T. Critchlow

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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. 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 family planning movement, shifting its focus from population control directed by established interests in the philanthropic community to highly polarized…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/25/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Laying the Foundation for Federal Family Planning Policy



Moving Forward Quietly



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


Notes


Index