Intended consequences : birth control, abortion, and the federal government in modern America / Donald T. Critchlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Critchlow, Donald T., 1948- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth control--Government policy--United States.

Birth control.

Abortion--Government policy--United States.

Abortion.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This story of the federal government's intervention in the most private aspect of American family life sheds light on the culture wars over unwed motherhood, homosexual parenting, a woman's right to an abortion, drawing a political map of past choices and current consequences.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Laying the Foundation for Federal Family Planning Policy: The Eisenhower-Kennedy Years

2. Moving Forward Quietly: Family Planning in the Johnson Administration

3. Implementing the Policy Revolution Under Johnson and Nixon

4. The Backlash: Roman Catholics Contraceptives, Abortion, and Sterilization

5. Richard Nixon and the Politicization of Family Planning Policy

6. Contesting the Policy Terrain After Roe: From Reagan to Clinton

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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D

E

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G

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K

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M

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Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771394-7

1-280-65525-9

0-19-802153-4

OCLC:

1406781297