The New States of Abortion Politics

Joshua C. Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2016 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-9202-8 (ISBN)

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The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v. Coakley striking down a Massachusetts law regulating anti-abortion activism marked the reengagement of the Supreme Court in abortion politics. A throwback to the days of clinic-front protests, the decision seemed a means to reinvigorate the old street politics of abortion. The Court's ruling also highlights the success of a decades' long effort by anti-abortion activists to transform the very politics of abortion. The New States of Abortion Politics, written by leading scholar Joshua C. Wilson, tells the story of this movement, from streets to legislative halls to courtrooms.

With the end of clinic-front activism, lawyers and politicians took on the fight. Anti-abortion activists moved away from a doomed frontal assault on Roe v. Wade and adopted an incremental strategy—putting anti-abortion causes on the offensive in friendly state forums and placing reproductive rights advocates on the defense in the courts. The Supreme Court ruling on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt in 2016 makes the stakes for abortion politics higher than ever. This book elucidates how—and why.

Joshua C. Wilson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. He is the author of The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars (Stanford, 2013).

1. Violence, Law, and Abortion Politics
2. From Allies to Alliances in the Antiabortion Movement
3. The Past as the Possible Future of Abortion Politics

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2016
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8047-9202-X / 080479202X
ISBN-13	978-0-8047-9202-8 / 9780804792028
Zustand	Neuware