The Right-to-Life Movement, the Reagan Administration, and the Politics of Abortion

• Main Author: Flowers, Prudence (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Subjects: United States-History.; History, Modern.; Social history.; World politics.; Women.; US History.; Modern History.; Social History.; Political History.; Women's Studies.

This book offers a political, ideological, and social history of the national right-to-life movement in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan. It analyzes anti-abortion engagement with the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, and offers what is frequently a narrative of disappointment an...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: A Brief History of the National Movement to End Abortion
• Chapter 3: "A Prolife Disaster": The Sandra Day O'Connor Nomination
• Chapter 4: "A Movement in Disarray": The Hatch/Helms Fight
• Chapter 5: "Voodoo Demographics": The Right-to-Life Movement Confronts the Population Establishment
• Chapter 6: Cultivating Reagan's Abortion Legacy: His Last Years in Office
• Chapter 7: The Lessons of the Reagan Years.