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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456928203321

Autore

Nossiff Rosemary

Titolo

Before Roe [[electronic resource] ] : abortion policy in the states / / Rosemary Nossiff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-283-13390-3

9786613133908

1-4399-0774-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

363.46/09747

Soggetti

Abortion - Government policy - New York (State)

Abortion - Government policy - Pennsylvania

Abortion - Government policy - United States - States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-187) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Reform and Opportunity; 2. Competing Discourses; 3. Gender Identity and Political Mobilization; 4. Party Politics in New York; 5. Interest-Group Politics in Pennsylvania; 6. Party, Discourse, and Policy; 7. After Roe: The Pendulum Swings Back; Conclusion; References; Index of Cases; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

Few issues in contemporary U.S> politics have remained on the public agenda so long and so divisively as abortion policy. The landmark Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Waade, which held that laws prohibiting first trimester abortions were illegal because they violated a woman's right to privacy, still generates heated controversy today, a quarter of a century after it was made. The seeds of that controversy were sown in the seven years immediately preceding Roe, when state legislatures tried to reconcile religious opposition to abortion and individuals' civil liberties.