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[A] valuable contribution to a more nuanced and thorough understanding of the long and troubled debate over the proper role of government in regulating sexual behavior in the U.S. Reference Books Bulletin

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Introduction Before 1960 The Early History of Abortion The Common Law A Short History of Abortion Policy in the United States: The Historians' Brief The Medical Crusade against Abortion (1840-1880) Criminal Abortion Laws The Legal Prohibition of Contraception Signs of Change (1940-1960) The Abortion Reform Movement (1960-1972) The Bad Old Days The National Organization for Women Two Reformers: Lawrence Lader and Patricia Maginnis Mounting a Constitutional Attack on State Abortion Laws Task Force Report on Family Law and Policy American Women, 1968 Feminist The Thalidomide Scare and the German Measles Epidemic Concern about Population Pressures The Medical Profession: New Medical Techniques California Philosophical Arguments for and against the Liberalization of Abortion Laws The 1973 Abortion Cases The Constitutional Provisions: Liberty, Privacy, and the Ninth Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment Griswold v. Connecticut and the Right to Privacy How the Cases Got Started Inside the Court The Cases: Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Doe v. Bolton: The Companion Case Public Reaction Reaction in Congress The Law Professors The Battle Lines Are Drawn (1974-1980) Missouri Passes a Restrictive Statute Parental Consent and the Rights of Minors State Cut Off Funding for Elective Abortions Legislative Attempts by Congress to Limit Abortion The Edelin Case (1975) A Human Life Amendment Hearing on Two Constitutional Amendments before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1974-1975 The Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights on the Human Life Amendments (1975) Religious Groups Enter the Political Fray Fundamentalist Chruches Become Involved in Politics Abortion Becomes an Issue in Presidential Politics, 1976-1977 The Reagan and Bush Administration and Beyond (1980-) Republican and Democratic Platform Statements on Abortion and the Selection of Judges (1980-1992) Congress Deliberates The Human Life Bill (1981) The Freedom of Choice Bill (1992) Packing the Supreme Court Abortion Decisions by the Reagan-Bush Supreme Court, 1983-1992 Abortion Clinic Violence Health Effects of Abortion on Women: the Koop Report, 1989 The Import Ban on a New Abortifacient Drug, RU-486 Epilogue: 1993 and After Appendix A: Major Supreme Court Decisions Related to Abortion, 1973-1992 Appendix B: Chronology of Events in the Abortion Controversy Index

About the Author

EVA R. RUBIN is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Abortion, Politics and the Courts (Greenwood Press, 1987, rev. edition) and The Supreme Court and the American Family (Greenwood Press, 1986).

Reviews

?[A] valuable contribution to a more nuanced and thorough understanding of the long and troubled debate over the proper role of government in regulating sexual behavior in the U.S.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

?The volume presents excellent overviews and summaries of court cases, major issues and movements for and against abortion, documents related to a Human Life Amendment and other proposed legislation, and summary of national party platforms on the issues, documents, and recent issues and problems, such as abortion clinic violence and public opinion polls showing support for legal abortion. A valuable resource on the subject. Recommended.?-Reference Book Review

?This collection of documents has the potential to be very useful in helping students to make sense of an extremely complex contemporary issue. It is so comprehensive, convenient, thought-provoking, and representative of the many sides involved in this controversey, that I highly recommend that this book be ordered by any high school or university library as a ready reference. You might even want one on your shelf.?-Transformation

?This is an excellent purchase. It is structured with high school and college students' research needs in mind....Highly recommended.?-The Book Report

"�A� valuable contribution to a more nuanced and thorough understanding of the long and troubled debate over the proper role of government in regulating sexual behavior in the U.S."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

"[A] valuable contribution to a more nuanced and thorough understanding of the long and troubled debate over the proper role of government in regulating sexual behavior in the U.S."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

"This collection of documents has the potential to be very useful in helping students to make sense of an extremely complex contemporary issue. It is so comprehensive, convenient, thought-provoking, and representative of the many sides involved in this controversey, that I highly recommend that this book be ordered by any high school or university library as a ready reference. You might even want one on your shelf."-Transformation

"This is an excellent purchase. It is structured with high school and college students' research needs in mind....Highly recommended."-The Book Report

"The volume presents excellent overviews and summaries of court cases, major issues and movements for and against abortion, documents related to a Human Life Amendment and other proposed legislation, and summary of national party platforms on the issues, documents, and recent issues and problems, such as abortion clinic violence and public opinion polls showing support for legal abortion. A valuable resource on the subject. Recommended."-Reference Book Review